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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2018-0504-01 Moderate: Mailman XSS

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial patch issued for Mailman on RHEL 6 addressing potential XSS vulnerabilities to enhance security measures and system integrity
An update for mailman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Mailman is a program used to help manage e-mail discussion lists.
Security Fix(es):
* mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI (CVE-2018-5950)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5950 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.src.rpm
i386: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.i686.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.i686.rpm
ppc64: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.ppc64.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.ppc64.rpm
s390x: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.s390x.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.s390x.rpm
x86_64: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):
Source: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.src.rpm
i386: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.i686.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.i686.rpm
x86_64: mailman-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-26.el6_9.3.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0504-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2018-03-13

Topic

An update for mailman is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1537941 - CVE-2018-5950 mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in web UI

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