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openSUSE Leap 15.0: 2018:1858-1 Moderate: Mailman Script Injection

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Enhance your openSUSE by applying the recent mailman security patch that resolves serious vulnerabilities and boosts system reliability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for mailman to version 2.1.27 fixes the following issues:

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2018-0618: Additional protections against injecting scripts into

listinfo and error messages pages (bsc#1099510).

These non-security issues were fixed:

- The hash generated when SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET is set could have been the

same as one generated at the same time for a different list and IP

address.

- An option has been added to bin/add_members to issue invitations instead

of immediately adding members.

- A new BLOCK_SPAMHAUS_LISTED_IP_SUBSCRIBE setting has been added to

enable blocking web subscribes from IPv4 addresses listed in Spamhaus

SBL, CSS or XBL. It will work with IPv6 addresses if Python's

py2-ipaddress module is installed. The module can be installed via pip

if not included in your Python.

- Mailman has a new 'security' log and logs authentication failures to the

various web CGI functions. ...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-691=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-691=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

mailman-2.1.27-2.6.1

mailman-debuginfo-2.1.27-2.6.1

mailman-debugsource-2.1.27-2.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

mailman-2.1.27-lp150.2.3.1

mailman-debuginfo-2.1.27-lp150.2.3.1

mailman-debugsource-2.1.27-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-0618.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099510

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1858-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0

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