full-disclosure - Re: [FD] Security flaw in Full Disclosure mailing list

Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Message-ID: <20140403091505.GA3791@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:15:05 +0300
From: George Chatzisofroniou <sophron@...thi.com>
To: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
Cc: "fulldisclosure@...lists.org" <fulldisclosure@...lists.org>
Subject: Re: [FD] Security flaw in Full Disclosure mailing list

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:30:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Ron <ron@...llsecurity.net> wrote:
> > That doesn't change the fact that it's storing the passwords in
> > plaintext, though, it just hides the 'your passwords are completely
> > insecure' issue a little bit.
> Mailman 3 might be changing that behavior. See "Password handling in
> MM3", https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2010-July/021207.html.
> 
> Unfortunately, it has not been released yet. See
> "https://launchpad.net/mailman", https://launchpad.net/mailman.

Plain texts passwords and reminders have already gone away in MM3. Note
that MM3 has a Beta release with some sufficient functionality for
anyone willing to try it out [1].

[1]: http://pythonhosted.org/mailman/src/mailman/docs/START.html

-- 
George Chatzisofroniou

_______________________________________________
Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list
http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure
Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives