New versions of mailman fixes cookie attack
Summary
We have become aware that the version mailman as supplied in Debian
GNU/Linux 2.1 has a problem with verifying list administrators. The
problem is that the cookie value generation used was predictable, so
using forged authentication cookies it was possible to access the
list administration webpages without knowing the proper password.
More information about this vulnerability can be found at
June/001128.html
This has been fixed in version 1.0rc2-5.
We recommend you upgrade your mailman package immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
Source archives:
source/mailman_1.0rc2-5.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 096d96ebf89341b148d2ae917037559a
source/mailman_1.0rc2-5.dsc
MD5 checksum: a407c72b6d80163b04ddc5fb895b8fbd
es/binary-source/mailman_1.0rc2.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 6916959db9144ecaf004fcd9be32a020
Alpha architecture:
alpha/mailman_1.0rc2-5_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 0f053b62d9dd51d4e2c0843258eee453
Intel ia32 architecture:
i386/mailman_1.0rc2-5_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: d9b0f93458a41055ba1b39891e0a5ca5
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
m68k/mailman_1.0rc2-5_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 94fc7996e4b296a4c944fe08ccb44503
Sun Sparc architecture:
sparc/mailman_1.0rc2-5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: e27d100b24d0c87c02cc86b7aadded0d
These files will be copied into
soon.
Please note you can also use apt to always get the latest security
updates. To do so add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb Debian -- Security Information
stable updates
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Debian GNU/Linux . Security Managers . security@debian.org
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Christian Hudon . Wichert Akkerman . Martin Schulze
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