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Debian: Security Advisory for sympa (DSA-4818-1)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'sympa' package(s) announced via the DSA-4818-1 advisory.
Insight
Insight
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Sympa, a mailing list manager, which could result in local privilege escalation, denial of service or unauthorized access via the SOAP API. Additionally to mitigate CVE-2020-26880 the sympa_newaliases-wrapper is no longer installed setuid root by default. A new Debconf question is introduced to allow setuid installations in setups where it is needed.
Affected Software
Affected Software
'sympa' package(s) on Debian Linux.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 6.2.40~dfsg-1+deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your sympa packages.