Security Advisory mailman security update

Advisory: RHSA-2004:156-07
Type: Security Advisory
Severity: Important
Issued on: 2004-04-14
Last updated on: 2004-04-14
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor
OVAL: N/A
CVEs (cve.mitre.org): CVE-2004-0182

Details

An updated mailman package that closes a DoS vulnerability in mailman
introduced by RHSA-2004:019 is now available.

Mailman is a mailing list manager.

On February 19 2004, Red Hat issued security erratum RHSA-2004:019 to
correct a DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability where an attacker could
send a carefully-crafted message and cause mailman to crash.

Matthew Saltzman discovered a flaw in our original patch intended to
correct this vulnerability. This flaw can cause mailman to crash if it
receives an email destined for a list with an empty subject field. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
the name CAN-2004-0182 to this issue.

Users of Mailman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
include an updated patch and are not vulnerable to this issue.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

If up2date fails to connect to Red Hat Network due to SSL
Certificate Errors, you need to install a version of the
up2date client with an updated certificate. The latest version of
up2date is available from the Red Hat FTP site and may also be
downloaded directly from the RHN website:

https://rhn.redhat.com/help/latest-up2date.pxt

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
mailman-2.0.13-6.src.rpm     a3e21d6a121d92d2efcef4076faa0e16
 
IA-32:
mailman-2.0.13-6.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2005:136
    74f69c7c5af328c581d053502e6b2465
 
IA-64:
mailman-2.0.13-6.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2005:136
    027475a9d95a44f8a8c263f30b854902
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
mailman-2.0.13-6.src.rpm     a3e21d6a121d92d2efcef4076faa0e16
 
IA-32:
mailman-2.0.13-6.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2005:136
    74f69c7c5af328c581d053502e6b2465
 
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor

SRPMS:
mailman-2.0.13-6.src.rpm     a3e21d6a121d92d2efcef4076faa0e16
 
IA-64:
mailman-2.0.13-6.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2005:136
    027475a9d95a44f8a8c263f30b854902
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

118669 - DoS: qrunner fails if no Subject field in message header


References



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