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RHEL 2.1 : mailman (RHSA-2004:156)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 12485

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated mailman package that closes a DoS vulnerability in mailman introduced by RHSA-2004:019 is now available.

Mailman is a mailing list manager.

On February 19 2004, Red Hat issued security erratum RHSA-2004:019 to correct a DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability where an attacker could send a carefully-crafted message and cause mailman to crash.

Matthew Saltzman discovered a flaw in our original patch intended to correct this vulnerability. This flaw can cause mailman to crash if it receives an email destined for a list with an empty subject field. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0182 to this issue.

Users of Mailman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which include an updated patch and are not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2004-0182

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:156

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 12485

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2004-156.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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: 4/14/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0991, CVE-2004-0182

RHSA: 2004:156