Bug 187420

Summary:	CVE-2006-0052 Mailman DoS
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	mailman	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	pb
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	reported=20060328,source=vendorsec,public=20050606,impact=moderate
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0486	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-06-14 12:18:06 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	193843

Description Josh Bressers 2006-03-30 20:24:17 UTC

Mailman DoS

It is possible to prevent a mailing list from functioning properly by
sending a misformed multipart message to a mailman list.  This
malformed message would prevent new messages sent to a list from being
processed.

Fixed in 2.1.6

Here is the original message:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-June/045107.html

Here is the patch:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py?r1=2.18.2.12&r2=2.18.2.13

CVE-2006-0052 Doesn't affect: FC5 (version)

This issue also affects RHEL3

Comment 1 Peter Bieringer 2006-04-28 11:31:45 UTC

No new package for RHEL after a month?
BTW: should a security related bug not get a dedicated mark?

Comment 2 Peter Bieringer 2006-04-28 11:36:29 UTC

Oops, there must be a problem in bugzilla. Like currently seen in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187421
 Keywords: Security

before I was able to submit my comment, I had to remove this keyword, before I
could not submit it (get a red message like "can't change keywords from none to
security")

But after submission, following occurs:

bugzilla changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Severity|security                    |normal
           Keywords|                            |Security


Looks like this change was caused by an internal process of bugzilla (and not my
intention, severity should be sure stay "security".

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2006-05-09 11:44:43 UTC

mailman-debuginfo-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.5
mailman-2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.5
mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.3
mailman-debuginfo-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.3

Comment 6 Harald Hoyer 2006-06-14 12:18:06 UTC

------- Additional Comments From bugzilla  2006-06-09 11:01 EST -------

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0486.html