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Debian 3.1 DSA-955-1 Critical: Mailman Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 955-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone January 25th, 2006
Two denial of service bugs were found in the mailman list server

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.5-8sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.5-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package immediately.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 738 da48d99072879f627fbba7d57f8b9449
Size/MD5 checksum: 188686 f6b707d6165c4e2def0a37ecaa9d0237
Size/MD5 checksum: 5745912 f5f56f04747cd4aff67427e7a45631af

Alpha architecture:

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