ALAS-2015-582


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2015-582
Advisory Release Date: 2015-08-17 12:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2015-08-17 12:31 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

It was found that mailman did not sanitize the list name before passing it to certain MTAs. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user running mailman. (CVE-2015-2775)

It was found that mailman stored private email messages in a world-readable directory. A local user could use this flaw to read private mailing list archives. (CVE-2002-0389)


Affected Packages:

mailman


Issue Correction:
Run yum update mailman to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    mailman-2.1.15-21.20.amzn1.i686
    mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.20.amzn1.i686

src:
    mailman-2.1.15-21.20.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.20.amzn1.x86_64
    mailman-2.1.15-21.20.amzn1.x86_64