Debian Security Advisory
DSA-955-1 mailman -- DoS
- Date Reported:
- 25 Jan 2006
- Affected Packages:
- mailman
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 339095, Bug 326024, Bug 327732.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3573, CVE-2005-4153. - More information:
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Two denial of service bugs were found in the mailman list server. In one, attachment filenames containing UTF8 strings were not properly parsed, which could cause the server to crash. In another, a message containing a bad date string could cause a server crash.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this issue.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-8sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package immediately.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.