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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2002.463 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 147-2
New mailman packages fix cross-site scripting problem
27 August 2002
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: mailman
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody)
Platform: Alpha
ARM
IA-32
IA-64
HP Precision
Motorola 680x0
MIPS
PowerPC
IBM S/390
SPARC
Impact: Access Confidential Data
Access Required: Remote
Ref: ESB-2002.414
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 147-2 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
August 26th, 2002 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mailman
Vulnerability : cross-site scripting
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2002-0388
Quoting DSA 147-1:
A cross-site scripting vulnerability was discovered in mailman, a
software to manage electronic mailing lists. When a properly
crafted URL is accessed with Internet Explorer (other browsers
don't seem to be affected), the resulting webpage is rendered
similar to the real one, but the javascript component is executed
as well, which could be used by an attacker to get access to
sensitive information. The new version for Debian 2.2 also
includes backports of security related patches from mailman 2.0.11.
This has been fixed in DSA 147-1 already, however, contrary to popular
belief, it turned out that the Python packaging does not upgrade
Python 1.5 users to 2.1 when upgrading from potato to woody. It also
turned out that the mailman security update unwittingly introduced a
dependency to Python 2.1, both in the security update and upstream,
which left the package unusable on some systems.
This problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody4 for the current
stable distribution (woody). Others are not affected.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package.
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:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 595 b154928ff9853f95ea301c452f23605d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 31005 08c23b520ae4b9f4e7ef45b465ad7e47
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 415129 915264cb1ac8d7b78ea9eff3ba38ee04
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 460960 e1d8a4257577fb4ebb66705275fa38a0
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 458600 f969eb59fd48e34f9fa0ac0709315c26
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 475002 64035fc874ed300ade121957bd550e24
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 461502 bfa37aa587621a19f8fe606157b9d207
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 459156 0116618a21c275f085b8d54aba503ae7
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 458684 233315c6f2fcd7914fc88bb4d775dacf
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 459154 14fe9870d61986680c7b36568ba070b4
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 459120 e401830cfcbb84a0fa79bfacfd291460
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 459464 e3793f4d40a7b363b4c6b9787635bf1a
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 459472 0ea41eaa4395227f8c58d4e979ac014b
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.0.11-1woody4_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 463962 e7f4892277153b9a24e2b5331703e2b7
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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