| Name | CVE-2020-9369 |
| Description | Sympa 6.2.38 through 6.2.52 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption from temporary files, and a flood of notifications to listmasters) via a series of requests with malformed parameters. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4818-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 952428 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| sympa (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 6.1.23~dfsg-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 6.2.16~dfsg-3+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 6.2.40~dfsg-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 6.2.60~dfsg-4 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.2.70~dfsg-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.2.72~dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| sympa | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| sympa | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| sympa | source | buster | 6.2.40~dfsg-1+deb10u1 | | DSA-4818-1 | |
| sympa | source | (unstable) | 6.2.40~dfsg-4 | low | | 952428 |
Notes
[stretch] - sympa <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced later in 6.2.38)
[jessie] - sympa <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced later in 6.2.38)
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886
https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.html
Upstream patch: https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/releases/download/6.2.54/sympa-6.2.52-sa-2020-001.patch