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Debian Security Advisory DSA 436-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Matt Zimmerman
February 8th, 2004                       Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : mailman
Vulnerability  : several
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2003-0991 CAN-2003-0965 CAN-2003-0038

Several vulnerabilities have been fixed in the mailman package:

 - CAN-2003-0038 - potential cross-site scripting via certain CGI
   parameters (not known to be exploitable in this version)

 - CAN-2003-0965 - cross-site scripting in the administrative
   interface

 - CAN-2003-0991 - certain malformed email commands could cause the
   mailman process to crash

The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to
perform administrative operations without authorization, by stealing a
session cookie.

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been
fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody7.

For the unstable distribution (sid), CAN-2003-0965 is fixed in version
2.1.4-1, and CAN-2003-0038 in version 2.1.1-1.  CAN-2003-0991 will be
fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your mailman package.

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

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      595 c065353b3cc8462611f585c6eb5ccc43
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:    31726 c7b00ed98949a0c1a6ad45a6ba22023d
      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   415129 915264cb1ac8d7b78ea9eff3ba38ee04

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   461206 9aa80ef9631d05c03282140cdf7f6a99

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   458902 abdcfec853f9601645a8bd0929c03531

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   458912 51f87418e0e3f56c7b7a5905a4457b3a

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   461720 3a0b6936743fea1b99792809fe30fd45

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   459454 0df2f1cb9abbce760a6e01e7cc0ff96f

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   458996 8333eb0b5eefea56922952e21d6fa1a7

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   459442 9f10739182c97b12fea781bb6e6bd0bb

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   459336 a091672c96a16bfc42d807b4a2a99a11

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   459744 09e1f59de9a974e43ce1f4616546d4e5

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   459750 e868d1807361981e8902ae859a1f044f

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   464212 634004546cf05739d91146dde8910701

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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