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RHEL 2.1 : mailman (RHSA-2004:019)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 12452

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated mailman packages that close a DoS vulnerability present in mailman versions prior to version 2.1 are now available.

Mailman is a mailing list manager.

Matthew Galgoci of Red Hat discovered a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in versions of Mailman prior to 2.1. An attacker could send a carefully-crafted message causing mailman to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2003-0991 to this issue.

Users of Mailman are advised to upgrade to the erratum packages, which include a backported security fix and are not vulnerable to this issue.

Red Hat would like to thank Barry Warsaw for providing a patch for this issue.

Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2003-0991

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:019

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 12452

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2004-019.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0991

RHSA: 2004:019