Debian mailman Vulnerability

BID:480

Info

Debian mailman Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 480
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 22 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 22 1999 12:00AM
Credit: First posted to BugTraq by Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> on June 23, 1999. Previous to being posted on BugTraq, it was discussed on the Mailman development mailing list, accessible at: http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/
Vulnerable: Debian Linux 2.1
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

Debian mailman Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

Debian mailman Vulnerability

Solution:
This has been fixed in mailman version 1.0rc2-5. It is recommended that the affected package be upgraded immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-source/mailman_1.0rc2-5.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 096d96ebf89341b148d2ae917037559a
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-source/mailman_1.0rc2-5.dsc
MD5 checksum: a407c72b6d80163b04ddc5fb895b8fbd
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-source/mailman_1.0rc2.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 6916959db9144ecaf004fcd9be32a020

Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/mailman_1.0rc2-5_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 0f053b62d9dd51d4e2c0843258eee453

Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/mailman_1.0rc2-5_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: d9b0f93458a41055ba1b39891e0a5ca5

Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/mailman_1.0rc2-5_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 94fc7996e4b296a4c944fe08ccb44503

Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/mailman_1.0rc2-5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: e27d100b24d0c87c02cc86b7aadded0d

References

Debian mailman Vulnerability

References:

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