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Gentoo: mailman XSS vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Gentoo The email variable and the default error page in mailmain 2.1 contains cross site scripting vulnerabilities.

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-05
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PACKAGE : mailman
SUMMARY : cross site scripting
DATE    : 2003-02-17 09:16 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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The email variable and the default error page in mailmain 2.1 contains
cross site scripting vulnerabilities.

Read the full advisory at: 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104342745916111&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/mailman upgrade to mailman-2.1.1 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge -u mailman
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at  http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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