mailman security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0204

Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists.

A flaw in handling of UTF8 character encodings was found in Mailman. An
attacker could send a carefully crafted email message to a mailing list run
by Mailman which would cause that particular mailing list to stop working.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name
CVE-2005-3573 to this issue.

A flaw in date handling was found in Mailman version 2.1.4 through 2.1.6.
An attacker could send a carefully crafted email message to a mailing list
run by Mailman which would cause the Mailman server to crash. (CVE-2005-4153).

Users of Mailman should upgrade to this updated package, which contains
backported patches to correct these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074859.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074860.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074861.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074862.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074863.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074867.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074871.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074889.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-March/074896.html

Affected packages:
mailman

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0204