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Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04: 4354-1 Moderate: Mailman Content Injection

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Vulnerability discovered in Postfix on Fedora may permit data manipulation on authentication interfaces. Immediate patching advised for optimal protection.
Mailman could be made to inject arbitrary content in the login page if it received a specially crafted input.

Summary

Mailman could be made to inject arbitrary content in the login page

if it received a specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- mailman: Web-based mailing list manager (legacy branch)

Details:

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled certain inputs.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary content

in the login page.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu mailman content injection login threat

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  mailman                         1:2.1.26-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  mailman                         1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.5

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4354-1

CVE-2020-12108

May 11, 2020

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu mailman content injection login threat

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailman/1:2.1.26-1ubuntu0.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailman/1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.5

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