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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1441-1 sympa -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

24 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

sympa

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-1000550.

More information:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Sympa, a modern mailing list manager, that allows write access to files on the server filesystem. This flaw allows to create or modify any file writable by the Sympa user, located on the server filesystem, using the function of Sympa web interface template file saving.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 6.1.23~dfsg-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your sympa packages.

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