opensuse-su-2021:1436-1
Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse
Published
2021-11-02 09:25
Modified
2021-11-02 09:25
Summary
Security update for mailman

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for mailman
Description of the patch
This update for mailman fixes the following issues: Update to 2.1.35 to fix 2 security issues: - A potential for for a list member to carry out an off-line brute force attack to obtain the list admin password has been reported by Andre Protas, Richard Cloke and Andy Nuttall of Apple. This is fixed. CVE-2021-42096 (boo#1191959, LP:#1947639) - A CSRF attack via the user options page could allow takeover of a users account. This is fixed. CVE-2021-42097 (boo#1191960, LP:#1947640) - make package build reproducible (boo#1047218)
Patchnames
openSUSE-2021-1436
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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}


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