Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3118-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 3118-1 – It was discovered that the Mailman administrative web interface did not protect against cross-site request forgery attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into Mailman, a remote attacker could perform administrative actions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Nishant Agarwala discovered that the Mailman user options page did not protect against cross-site request forgery attacks. If an authenticated user were tricked into visiting a malicious website while logged into Mailman, a remote attacker could modify user options. Various other issues were also addressed.

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