CVE-2005-0202 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031562.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110805795122386&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/14211 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013145 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-674 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-11.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:037 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_07_mailman.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-136.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-137.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10657