USN-267-1: mailman vulnerability
4 April 2006
mailman vulnerability
Releases
Details
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the decoder
for multipart messages. Certain parts of type "message/delivery-status"
or parts containing only two blank lines triggered an exception. An
attacker could exploit this to crash Mailman by sending a
specially crafted email to a mailing list.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 5.10
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mailman
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Ubuntu 5.04
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mailman
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Ubuntu 4.10
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mailman
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.