Issued:
2011-03-01
Updated:
2011-03-01

RHSA-2011:0308 - Moderate: mailman security update

Synopsis

Moderate: mailman security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An updated mailman package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Mailman is a program used to help manage email discussion lists.

Multiple input sanitization flaws were found in the way Mailman displayed usernames of subscribed users on certain pages. If a user who is subscribed to a mailing list were able to trick a victim into visiting one of those pages, they could perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against the victim. (CVE-2011-0707)

Multiple input sanitization flaws were found in the way Mailman displayed mailing list information. A mailing list administrator could use this flaw to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against victims viewing a list's "listinfo" page. (CVE-2010-3089)

Red Hat would like to thank Mark Sapiro for reporting these issues.

Users of mailman should upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x

Updated Packages

  • mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
  • mailman-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.src.rpm
  • mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.s390x.rpm
  • mailman-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.i686.rpm
  • mailman-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.ppc64.rpm
  • mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.ppc64.rpm
  • mailman-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.x86_64.rpm
  • mailman-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.s390x.rpm
  • mailman-debuginfo-2.1.12-14.el6_0.2.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information