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authorbwarsaw <>2005-05-30 20:09:15 +0000
committerbwarsaw <>2005-05-30 20:09:15 +0000
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Updates for 2.1.6 final.
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" >
<html>
<!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. -->
-<!-- Thu Feb 24 10:23:20 2005 -->
+<!-- Mon May 30 15:49:40 2005 -->
<!-- USING HT2HTML 2.0 -->
<!-- SEE http://ht2html.sf.net -->
<!-- User-specified headers:
@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ This is a closed list that reaches the core Mailman developers.
<ul>
<li><b>CAN-2005-0202</b> -- This is a very serious issue affecting the Mailman
-2.1 series up to and including version 2.1.5. Mailman 2.1.6 is not
-affected. This issue can allow for the leakage of member passwords.
+2.1 series up to and including version 2.1.5. <b>Mailman 2.1.6 is not
+affected</b>. This issue can allow for the leakage of member passwords.
<p>A quick, immediate fix is to remove the /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/private
executable. However, this will break any private archives your lists may be
@@ -196,6 +196,11 @@ will be informed of their new passwords.
<p>Credit goes to Marcus Meissner for finding this issue.
</li>
+
+<li><b>Mailman 2.1.6</b> -- allows for more cryptographically secure (but less
+user-friendly) list admin and auto-generated user passwords. Also, a
+potential cross-site scripting hole has been closed.
+
</ul>
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