Hello?

[Ed Lawson]

jbd at codemeta.com wrote:

>Sigh. I'm have the impression that there is no secure software out there. 
>
>Quoting "Derek D. Martin" <ddm at pizzashack.org>:
>  
>
>>...
>>I also feel I'd be remiss to not point out to the list maintainers
>>that GNU Mailman has a long history of security vulnerabilities.  The
>>version currently in use, 2.0.9, is known to be vulnerable to a number
>>of cross-site scripting attacks. 
>>...
>>    
>>
Another reason to like Debian and note the browser affected.

Debian Security Advisory DSA 147-1                     security at debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
August 8th, 2002  
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Package        : mailman
Vulnerability  : cross-site scripting
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id         : CAN-2002-0388

A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in mailman, a
software to manage electronic mailing lists.  When a properly crafted
URL is accessed with Internet Explorer (other browsers don't seem to
be affected), the resulting webpage is rendered similar to the real
one, but the javascript component is executed as well, which could be
used by an attacker to get access to sensitive information.  The new
version for Debian 2.2 also includes backports of security related
patches from mailman 2.0.11.

This problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody2 for the current
stable distribution (woody), in version 1.1-10.1 for the old stable
distribution (woody) and in version 2.0.12-1 for the unstable
distribution (sid).

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package.

Ed Lawson