Medium: mailman

Issue Overview:

A cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) has been discovered in mailman due to the host_name field not being properly validated. A malicious list owner could use this flaw to create a specially crafted list and inject client-side scripts. (CVE-2018-0618)

An issue was discovered in GNU Mailman before 2.1.28. A crafted URL can cause arbitrary text to be displayed on a web page from a trusted site. (CVE-2018-13796)

Affected Packages:

mailman

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update mailman to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    mailman-2.1.15-30.amzn2.aarch64  
    mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-30.amzn2.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    mailman-2.1.15-30.amzn2.i686  
    mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-30.amzn2.i686  
  
src:  
    mailman-2.1.15-30.amzn2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    mailman-2.1.15-30.amzn2.x86_64  
    mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-30.amzn2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-0618, CVE-2018-13796

Mitre: CVE-2018-0618, CVE-2018-13796