PT-2000-1634 · Gnu · Mailman

Published 2000-10-20 · Updated 2008-09-10 · CVE-2000-0701

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mailman versions 2.0beta3 through 2.0beta4

Description The issue arises from the wrapper program in mailman not properly cleansing untrusted format strings, allowing local users to gain privileges.

Recommendations For mailman versions 2.0beta3 through 2.0beta4, consider updating to a version where this issue is fixed, however, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2000-0701

Affected Products

Mailman

References · 8

• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/73220 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/1539 · Vendor Advisory
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0474.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0701 · Security Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-07/0479.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0701 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=20000802105050.A11733%40rak.isternet.sk · Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-030.html · Note