DSA-955-1 mailman -- DoS

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-955-1 mailman -- DoS

Date Reported:

25 Jan 2006

Affected Packages:

mailman

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 339095, Bug 326024, Bug 327732.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3573, CVE-2005-4153.

More information:

Two denial of service bugs were found in the mailman list server. In one, attachment filenames containing UTF8 strings were not properly parsed, which could cause the server to crash. In another, a message containing a bad date string could cause a server crash.

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

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-8sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package immediately.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1.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_2.1.5-8sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge1_sparc.deb

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