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openSUSE Leap 42.3 & 15.0: 2018:2309-1 Moderate Mailman Spoofing

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An update for openSUSE has been issued to fix a content spoofing vulnerability in Mailman, affecting Leap 42.3 and 15.0 versions. Users should apply the latest patches to protect their systems
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for mailman fixes the following issues:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-13796: Fix a content spoofing vulnerability with invalid list

name messages inside the web UI (boo#1101288).

Bug fixes:

- update to 2.1.29:

* Fixed the listinfo and admin overview pages that were broken

- update to 2.1.28:

* It is now possible to edit HTML and text templates via the web admin

UI in a supported language other than the list's preferred_language.

* The Japanese translation has been updated

* The German translation has been updated

* The Esperanto translation has been updated

* The BLOCK_SPAMHAUS_LISTED_DBL_SUBSCRIBE feature added in 2.1.27 was

not working. This is fixed.

* Escaping of HTML entities for the web UI is now done more selectively.

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-2018-861=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-861=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

mailman-2.1.29-2.11.2

mailman-debuginfo-2.1.29-2.11.2

mailman-debugsource-2.1.29-2.11.2

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

mailman-2.1.29-lp150.2.8.1

mailman-debuginfo-2.1.29-lp150.2.8.1

mailman-debugsource-2.1.29-lp150.2.8.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-13796.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101288

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2309-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0

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