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Gentoo: GLSA 200502-11 Normal: Mailman Directory Traversal Threat

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2005
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Gentoo Security Notice GLSA 202115-05: Mailman poses a directory traversal risk, potentially exposing sensitive information. Immediate upgrade is recommended.
Mailman fails to properly sanitize input, leading to information disclosure.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Mailman: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: February 10, 2005 Bugs: #81109 ID: 200502-11

Synopsis ======= Mailman fails to properly sanitize input, leading to information disclosure.
Background ========= Mailman is a Python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-mail/mailman < 2.1.5-r4 >= 2.1.5-r4
========== Mailman contains an error in private.py which fails to properly sanitize input paths.
Impact ===== An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files on the web server.
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