CVE-2015-2775

Advisory

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU Mailman before 2.1.20, when not using a static alias, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a list name.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU Mailman before 2.1.20, when not using a static alias, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a list name.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2775
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1437145
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3214
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2015-March/024875.html
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2015-March/024871.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2558-1
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2015-March/000209.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032033
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1153.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73922
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156742.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154911.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1417.html