Mailman: Member password disclosure vulnerability

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
net-mail/mailman	< 2.1.5	>= 2.1.5	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #51671

Mailman contains a bug allowing 3rd parties to retrieve member passwords.

2. Impact Information

Mailman is a python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface.

Mailman contains an unspecified vulnerability in the handling of request emails.

By sending a carefully crafted email request to the mailman server an attacker could obtain member passwords.

3. Resolution Information

There is no known workaround at this time.

All users of Mailman should upgrade to the latest stable version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=net-mail/mailman-2.1.5"
# emerge ">=net-mail/mailman-2.1.5"

4. References

Updated June 09, 2004

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