CVE-2006-4624

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-06-23
Bugzilla:
205651: CVE-2006-4624 mailman logfile CRLF injection

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

CRLF injection vulnerability in Utils.py in Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to spoof messages in the error log and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious URLs via CRLF sequences in the URI.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4624 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205651

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact and expects to release a future update to address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3 which are in maintenance mode.

This bug will be addressed in a future update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (mailman) RHSA-2007:0779 2007-11-15

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