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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2006:0204 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2006-03-07
Updated:
2006-03-07

RHSA-2006:0204 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

mailman security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An updated mailman package that fixes two security issues is now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

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

Description

Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists.

A flaw in handling of UTF8 character encodings was found in Mailman. An
attacker could send a carefully crafted email message to a mailing list run
by Mailman which would cause that particular mailing list to stop working.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name
CVE-2005-3573 to this issue.

A flaw in date handling was found in Mailman version 2.1.4 through 2.1.6.
An attacker could send a carefully crafted email message to a mailing list
run by Mailman which would cause the Mailman server to crash. (CVE-2005-4153).

Users of Mailman should upgrade to this updated package, which contains
backported patches to correct these issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc

Fixes

  • BZ - 173139 - CVE-2005-3573 Mailman Denial of Service
  • BZ - 176089 - CVE-2005-4153 Mailman DOS

CVEs

  • CVE-2005-4153
  • CVE-2005-3573

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.src.rpm SHA-256: 46b64ca101a21635a226468c53164b19cc98b4594ff91d5280d5cb16774a3a9d
x86_64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6427b0c38989c5d005afec85f9bbfcf88b049e1abc76564fe02cd009658488b1
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6427b0c38989c5d005afec85f9bbfcf88b049e1abc76564fe02cd009658488b1
ia64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 139c8d8c1af50b1a646ee3b902a0b8328acf335b15691d7e2a2379844a7e88e3
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 139c8d8c1af50b1a646ee3b902a0b8328acf335b15691d7e2a2379844a7e88e3
i386
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: ffea22efefbe2c917ff3cbbed547f75b01c8a92ab9a586b670c9417c866a2caf
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: ffea22efefbe2c917ff3cbbed547f75b01c8a92ab9a586b670c9417c866a2caf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3

SRPM
x86_64
ia64
i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.src.rpm SHA-256: 46b64ca101a21635a226468c53164b19cc98b4594ff91d5280d5cb16774a3a9d
x86_64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6427b0c38989c5d005afec85f9bbfcf88b049e1abc76564fe02cd009658488b1
ia64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 139c8d8c1af50b1a646ee3b902a0b8328acf335b15691d7e2a2379844a7e88e3
i386
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: ffea22efefbe2c917ff3cbbed547f75b01c8a92ab9a586b670c9417c866a2caf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3

SRPM
x86_64
ia64
i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.src.rpm SHA-256: 46b64ca101a21635a226468c53164b19cc98b4594ff91d5280d5cb16774a3a9d
x86_64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6427b0c38989c5d005afec85f9bbfcf88b049e1abc76564fe02cd009658488b1
i386
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.i386.rpm SHA-256: ffea22efefbe2c917ff3cbbed547f75b01c8a92ab9a586b670c9417c866a2caf

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3

SRPM
x86_64
i386

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.src.rpm SHA-256: 46b64ca101a21635a226468c53164b19cc98b4594ff91d5280d5cb16774a3a9d
s390x
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 36749cc31b880cfd2c4d4782235b88133b77ea05a91985e22dd6713b4b528be4
s390
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.s390.rpm SHA-256: 2aa9768491479efd41e76ef7aaf1baf5002e6cee8698d937cf02cec259dec879

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3

SRPM
s390x
s390

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.src.rpm SHA-256: 46b64ca101a21635a226468c53164b19cc98b4594ff91d5280d5cb16774a3a9d
ppc
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2.ppc.rpm SHA-256: a2044b65db249c94d0c859eee00ced767b8d25673c73474d8d1ff2be28e6b944

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3

SRPM
ppc

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