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Security Advisory Low: mailman security and bug fix update

Advisory: RHSA-2007:0779-4
Type: Security Advisory
Severity: Low
Issued on: 2007-11-15
Last updated on: 2007-11-15
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
CVEs (cve.mitre.org): CVE-2006-4624

Details

Updated mailman packages that fix a security issue and various bugs are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat
Security Response Team.

Mailman is a program used to help manage email discussion lists.

A flaw was found in Mailman. A remote attacker could spoof messages in
the error log, and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious
URLs via a carriage return/line feed sequence in the URI. (CVE-2006-4624)

As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs:

* canceling a subscription on the confirm subscription request page
caused mailman to crash.

* editing the sender filter caused all spam filter rules to be deleted.

* the migrate-fhs script was not included.

* the mailman init script returned a zero (success) exit code even when
an incorrect command was given. For example, the "mailman foo" command
returned a zero exit code. In these updated packages the mailmain init
script returns the correct exit codes.

Users of Mailman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.


Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: cc98584c023f60a7b82b75ad32746ded
 
IA-32:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: abd6759ac2f46e50d9de6c6fffc9117a
 
x86_64:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 5f00ffd062da99497e20e27ae0b3fd2e
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: cc98584c023f60a7b82b75ad32746ded
 
IA-32:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: abd6759ac2f46e50d9de6c6fffc9117a
 
IA-64:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 413aba0280251a5ad3da4bd35c235f8b
 
PPC:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: c9cfb9aa11a5c281b3a82313d2ea233a
 
s390:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.s390.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 0130bfcf79c1bb852ee1a57664e0318d
 
s390x:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 05f6bc35d89b64f54ea98e94962c79fc
 
x86_64:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 5f00ffd062da99497e20e27ae0b3fd2e
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: cc98584c023f60a7b82b75ad32746ded
 
IA-32:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: abd6759ac2f46e50d9de6c6fffc9117a
 
IA-64:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 413aba0280251a5ad3da4bd35c235f8b
 
x86_64:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 5f00ffd062da99497e20e27ae0b3fd2e
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: cc98584c023f60a7b82b75ad32746ded
 
IA-32:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: abd6759ac2f46e50d9de6c6fffc9117a
 
IA-64:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 413aba0280251a5ad3da4bd35c235f8b
 
x86_64:
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHSA-2011:0307
    MD5: 5f00ffd062da99497e20e27ae0b3fd2e
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

200036 - Canceling subscription confirmation crashes mailman
205651 - CVE-2006-4624 mailman logfile CRLF injection
223191 - Spam filters gets deleted when sender filter is edited
230939 - mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5 is missing migrate-fhs script
242677 - Wrong init script


References



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