DSA-1027-1 mailman -- programming error

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1027-1 mailman -- programming error

Date Reported:

06 Apr 2006

Affected Packages:

mailman

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 358892.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0052.

More information:

A potential denial of service problem has been discovered in mailman, the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The (failing) parsing of messages with malformed mime multiparts sometimes caused the whole mailing list to become inoperative.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this issue.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-8sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

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_2.1.5-8sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2.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_2.1.5-8sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_sparc.deb

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