Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1027-1 mailman -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 06 Apr 2006
- Affected Packages:
- mailman
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 358892.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0052. - More information:
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A potential denial of service problem has been discovered in mailman, the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The (failing) parsing of messages with malformed mime multiparts sometimes caused the whole mailing list to become inoperative.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this issue.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-8sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.