DSA-1188-1 mailman -- format string

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1188-1 mailman -- format string

Date Reported:

04 Oct 2006

Affected Packages:

mailman

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 19831.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3636, CVE-2006-4624.

More information:

Several security related problems have been discovered in mailman, the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2006-3636

  Moritz Naumann discovered several cross-site scripting problems that could allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script code or HTML.

• CVE-2006-4624

  Moritz Naumann discovered that a remote attacker can inject arbitrary strings into the logfile.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.5-8sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.8-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_arm.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.