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Debian 3.1: DSA 1188-1 Moderate: Mailman Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2006
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Multiple vulnerabilities found in the mailman software necessitate prompt upgrades to protect Debian systems from potential threats.
Updated package.

Summary


Moritz Naumann discovered several cross-site scripting problems
that could allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script
or HTML.

CVE-2006-4624

Moritz Naumann discovered that a remote attacker can inject
arbitrary strings into the logfile.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.5-8sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.8-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package.


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 at the end of this advisory:

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.


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