Synopsis

Low: mailman security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

Updated mailman packages that fix a security issue and various bugs are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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

Description

Mailman is a program used to help manage email discussion lists.

A flaw was found in Mailman. A remote attacker could spoof messages in
the error log, and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious
URLs via a carriage return/line feed sequence in the URI. (CVE-2006-4624)

As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs:

• canceling a subscription on the confirm subscription request page
  caused mailman to crash.
  
• editing the sender filter caused all spam filter rules to be deleted.
  
• the migrate-fhs script was not included.
  
• the mailman init script returned a zero (success) exit code even when
  an incorrect command was given. For example, the "mailman foo" command
  returned a zero exit code. In these updated packages the mailmain init
  script returns the correct exit codes.
  

Users of Mailman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

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 Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 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 Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 200036 - Canceling subscription confirmation crashes mailman
• BZ - 205651 - CVE-2006-4624 mailman logfile CRLF injection
• BZ - 223191 - Spam filters gets deleted when sender filter is edited
• BZ - 230939 - mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5 is missing migrate-fhs script
• BZ - 242677 - Wrong init script

CVEs

• CVE-2006-4624

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm	SHA-256: dce2db273e169a279a6e5e47c5b06ad428465609f3f758c14aef58a79dd1940d
x86_64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e32b14be7ef15906f86b9ddabce6cde980aedb23d1d308b706b0822d882a9e2c
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e32b14be7ef15906f86b9ddabce6cde980aedb23d1d308b706b0822d882a9e2c
ia64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 12bd78f8ac7c978a8565b2d45899077d0f19f37c4b72c6259854f5a9e8057cb3
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 12bd78f8ac7c978a8565b2d45899077d0f19f37c4b72c6259854f5a9e8057cb3
i386
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 1364bcddfe5b4db3f7ef8ccb6b91a498e5af567e4f3296254804205a5619ba3a
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 1364bcddfe5b4db3f7ef8ccb6b91a498e5af567e4f3296254804205a5619ba3a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm	SHA-256: dce2db273e169a279a6e5e47c5b06ad428465609f3f758c14aef58a79dd1940d
x86_64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e32b14be7ef15906f86b9ddabce6cde980aedb23d1d308b706b0822d882a9e2c
ia64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 12bd78f8ac7c978a8565b2d45899077d0f19f37c4b72c6259854f5a9e8057cb3
i386
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 1364bcddfe5b4db3f7ef8ccb6b91a498e5af567e4f3296254804205a5619ba3a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm	SHA-256: dce2db273e169a279a6e5e47c5b06ad428465609f3f758c14aef58a79dd1940d
x86_64
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e32b14be7ef15906f86b9ddabce6cde980aedb23d1d308b706b0822d882a9e2c
i386
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 1364bcddfe5b4db3f7ef8ccb6b91a498e5af567e4f3296254804205a5619ba3a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm	SHA-256: dce2db273e169a279a6e5e47c5b06ad428465609f3f758c14aef58a79dd1940d
s390x
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: a85e8fca8880f53c6ebd124a4914042b1cbc3be6674b8c6b275a99934d89496f
s390
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 55bb50aa1a4b3f1584ab286fa098189ebb8f31ad4370d8b0260b86da3dbdb541

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4

SRPM
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.src.rpm	SHA-256: dce2db273e169a279a6e5e47c5b06ad428465609f3f758c14aef58a79dd1940d
ppc
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.6.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 4a6e0b90535daf14cecf078141752cb7546c366e5a9d546ea7b01c6142982c96