USN-3118-1: Mailman vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3118-1

1st November, 2016

mailman vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 16.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Mailman.

Software description

• mailman
  - Powerful, web-based mailing list manager
  
  

Details

It was discovered that the Mailman administrative web interface did not
protect against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. If an
authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while
logged into Mailman, a remote attacker could perform administrative
actions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. ()

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2016-7123