USN-2558-1

It was discovered that Mailman incorrectly handled special characters in list names. A local attacker could use this issue to perform a path traversal attack and execute arbitrary code as the Mailman user.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / mailman

Package

Name: mailman
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/mailman@1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1:2.*

1:2.1.16~rc2-1

1:2.1.16-1

1:2.1.16-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "mailman",
            "binary_version": "1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2558-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-2775"
        }
    ]
}