
A security vulnerability in Mailman has been found and fixed. It has been assigned CVE-2015-2775. The details of this vulnerability and fix will be announced next Tuesday, 31 March 2015, at which time both a patch for this specific vulnerability and Mailman 2.1.20 will be released.
In addition to this security fix, Mailman 2.1.20 includes a new feature allowing a list owner to change a list member's address through the admin Membership Management... Section, and a couple of minor bug fixes.
The new feature is a fix for https://launchpad.net/bugs/266809.
The bugs fixed are: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1426825, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1426829 and https://launchpad.net/bugs/1427389.
The security vulnerability, the details of which are currently private, is https://launchpad.net/bugs/1437145.
The security vulnerability only affects those installations which use Exim, Postfix's postfix_to_mailman.py or similar programmatic (not aliases) MTA delivery to Mailman, and have untrusted local users on the Mailman server.