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Debian DSA-1027-1 : mailman - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22569

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the mailman package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.5-8sarge2.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358892

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1027

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22569

File Name: debian_DSA-1027.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:debian:debian_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0052

DSA: 1027