DSA-436-1 mailman -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-436-1 mailman -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

08 Feb 2004

Affected Packages:

mailman

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9336, BugTraq ID 9620.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0991, CVE-2003-0965, CVE-2003-0038.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the mailman package:

• CAN-2003-0038 - potential cross-site scripting via certain CGI parameters (not known to be exploitable in this version)
• CAN-2003-0965 - cross-site scripting in the administrative interface
• CAN-2003-0991 - certain malformed email commands could cause the mailman process to crash

The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to perform administrative operations without authorization, by stealing a session cookie.

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), CAN-2003-0965 is fixed in version 2.1.4-1, and CAN-2003-0038 in version 2.1.1-1. CAN-2003-0991 will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your mailman package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody8_sparc.deb

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

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