Rule: 

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Sid: 
3131

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Summary: 
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known
vulnerability in GNU Mailman.

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Impact: 
Information disclosure.

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Detailed Information:
GNU Mailman is used to manage mailing lists. It is written in Python and
is available on a variety of platforms.

GNU Mailman when used with webservers that do not remove extra slashes
from URLs, is prone to a directory traversal attack that may allow an
attacker access to sensitive files on an affected system.

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Affected Systems:
	GNU Mailman in conjunction with Apache 1.3.x

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Attack Scenarios: 
An attacker can supply extra slashes and dots (....///) to a URL to
escape the web root and access other parts of the host filesystem.

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Ease of Attack: 
Simple. Exploit software is not required.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action: 
Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors: 
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
Brian Caswell <bmc@sourcefire.com>
Nigel Houghton <nigel.houghton@sourcefire.com>

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Additional References:

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