Advisories » MGASA-2016-0343

Updated mailman package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Oct 2016
Modification date: 18 Oct 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6893

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the user options page in 
GNU Mailman 2.1.x before 2.1.23 allows remote attackers to hijack the 
authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify an option, as 
demonstrated by gaining access to the credentials of a victim's account 
(CVE-2016-6893).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19287
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3668
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6893

SRPMS

5/core

• mailman-2.1.20-3.mga5