REGRESSION: mailman broken after security upgrade on gutsy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
mailman (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Critical
|
Emanuele Gentili | ||
Feisty |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Gutsy |
Fix Released
|
Critical
|
Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
A security update to mailman, fixing multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, caused mailman to fail to start due to a patching error. The following versions are affected:
1:2.1.
1:2.1.
The update has been withdrawn (both by disabling downloads of the relevant files, and by removing the package from feisty-security and gutsy-security) pending corrective action, and the security team is testing a fix.
Original report follows:
I got the following output during an 'apt-get upgrade':
Setting up mailman (1:2.1.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/
from Mailman import MailList
File "/var/lib/
from Mailman import Gui
File "/var/lib/
from General import General
File "/var/lib/
elif property == 'info':
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Installing site language en .......
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
from Mailman import MailList
File "/var/lib/
from Mailman import Gui
File "/var/lib/
from General import General
File "/var/lib/
elif property == 'info':
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/
from Mailman import MailList
File "/var/lib/
from Mailman import Gui
File "/var/lib/
from General import General
File "/var/lib/
elif property == 'info':
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
* Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing.
* Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start.
WARNING: compile error while trying to byte-compile /usr/lib/
elif property == 'info':
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
(And I also get the same traceback in the logfiles when I try to access the lists page.)
CVE References
description: | updated |
Changed in mailman: | |
assignee: | nobody → emgent |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
status: | New → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → emgent |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
status: | New → In Progress |
description: | updated |
Changed in mailman: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Sorry, this wasn't a dupe, looked to quickly on the backtraces.
Happens on Feisty too.