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CVE-2005-0202

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-02-12 mailman -- directory traversal vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-0202
Phase Assigned(20050201)

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the true_path function in private.py for Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via ".../....///" sequences, which are not properly cleansed by regular expressions that are intended to remove "../" and "./" sequences.

References

Source Reference
FULLDISC 20050209 Administrivia: List Compromised due to Mailman Vulnerability
APPLE APPLE-SA-2005-03-21
DEBIAN DSA-674
GENTOO GLSA-200502-11
MANDRAKE MDKSA-2005:037
REDHAT RHSA-2005:136
REDHAT RHSA-2005:137
BUGTRAQ 20050209 [USN-78-1] Mailman vulnerability
SUSE SUSE-SA:2005:007
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10657
SECTRACK 1013145
SECUNIA 14211