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openSUSE: 2021:1452-1 Important Mailman CSRF Issues - Auth Attack Fix

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2021
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A crucial openSUSE security patch addresses two flaws in Mailman that impact user accounts and administrative permissions.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for mailman fixes the following issues:

Update to 2.1.35 to fix 2 security issues:

- A potential for for a list member to carry out an off-line brute force

attack to obtain the list admin password has been reported by Andre

Protas, Richard Cloke and Andy Nuttall of Apple. This is fixed.

CVE-2021-42096 (boo#1191959, LP:#1947639)

- A CSRF attack via the user options page could allow takeover of a users account. This is fixed. CVE-2021-42097 (boo#1191960, LP:#1947640)

- make package build reproducible (boo#1047218)

This update was imported from the openSUSE:Leap:15.2:Update update project.

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security advisory security update authentication issue mailman CSRF attack openSUSE admin access

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 Backports SLE-15-SP2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1452=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

mailman-2.1.35-bp152.7.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42096.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42097.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047218

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191959

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1191960

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1452-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP2 ble.

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