Bug 631859

Summary:	Mailman: Cross-site scripting (XSS) in list information overview
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jkaluza, security-response-team, vdanen
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-08 14:38:03 UTC

A security flaw was found in the way Mailman mailing list
manager sanitized mailing list description by presenting
general mailing list information. A remote mailing list
owner could use this flaw to conduct cross-site scripting
(XSS) attacks (execute arbitrary HTML or scripting code).

References:
[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2010-September/000150.html

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-08 15:11:09 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the mailman package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

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This issue affects the versions of the mailman package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 12 and 13.

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-13 10:56:51 UTC

Public via: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2010-September/000151.html

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2010-09-13 20:40:38 UTC

This issue has been assigned the name CVE-2010-3090.

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-14 04:30:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 631881 ***

Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-09-14 04:37:17 UTC

Note: 
CVE-2010-3090 was rejected because CVE-2010-3089 affects the same version and falls in the same class of issues per:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/13/12