OpenSUSE 10.0: OPENSUSE-2005-045 Serious: Mailman Password Leak

Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like

Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives

each mailing list a webpage, and allows users to subscribe,

unsubscribe, etc. over the Web. Even the list manager can administer

his or her list entirely from the Web. Mailman also integrates most

things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail

<-> news gateways, and so on.

Documentation can be found in: /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.5

When the package has finished installing, you will need to perform some

additional installation steps, these are described in:

/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.5/INSTALL.REDHAT

Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists, much like

Majordomo and Smartmail. Unlike most similar products, Mailman gives

each mailing list a webpage, and allows users to subscribe,

unsubscribe, etc. over the Web. Even the list manager can administer

his or her list entirely from the Web. Mailman also integrates most

things people want to do with mailing lists, including archiving, mail

<-> news gateways, and so on.

Documentation can be found in: /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.5

When the package has finished installing, you will need to perform some

additional installation steps, these are described in:

/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.5/INSTALL.REDHAT

Fixes security issue CAN-2004-0412 noted in bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=123559

Mailman subscriber passwords could be retrieved by a remote attacker. Security hole is fixed in mailman-2.1.5

Important Installation Note:

Some users have reported problems with bad queue counts after upgrading to version 2.1.5, the operating assumption is this was caused by performing an install while mailman was running. Prior to installing this rpm stop the mailman service via:

% /sbin/service mailman stop

Then after installation completes restart the service via:

% /sbin/service mailman start

Red Hat RPM versions of mailman 2.1.5-6 and above have enhanced the init.d script that controls the mailman service so that "/sbin/service mailman status" now returns valid information. The RPM has been augmented to detect if mailman is running prior to installation and if so it will temporarily stop mailman during the install and restart mailman after the install completes. If mailman was not...