The advisory DSA 1027-1 addresses a denial of service vulnerability in mailman, the web-based GNU mailing list manager
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 23 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | CVE-2006-0052 | 31 Mar 200611:06 | – | debiancve |
![]() | MDKSA-2006:061 : mailman | 4 Apr 200600:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Debian DSA-1027-1 : mailman - programming error | 14 Oct 200600:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 3 / 4 : mailman (RHSA-2006:0486) | 11 Jun 200600:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | CentOS 3 / 4 : mailman (CESA-2006:0486) | 3 Jul 200600:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : mailman vulnerability (USN-267-1) | 4 Apr 200600:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | [ MDKSA-2006:061 ] - Updated mailman packages fix DoS from badly formed mime multipart messages. | 30 Mar 200600:00 | – | securityvulns |
![]() | CVE-2006-0052 | 31 Mar 200611:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | mailman vulnerability | 4 Apr 200600:00 | – | ubuntu |
![]() | CVE-2006-0052 | 31 Mar 200611:06 | – | cve |
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_1027_1.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1027-1
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2007 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largerly excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#
include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_solution = "For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.5-8sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mailman package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201027-1";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to mailman
announced via advisory DSA 1027-1.
A potential denial of service problem has been discovered in mailman,
the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The (failing) parsing of
messages with malformed mime multiparts sometimes caused the whole
mailing list to become inoperative.
The old stable distribution (woody) is not vulnerable to this issue.";
if(description)
{
script_id(56534);
script_version("$Revision: 6616 $");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-01-17 23:09:45 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008)");
script_bugtraq_id(17311);
script_cve_id("CVE-2006-0052");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 1027-1 (mailman)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2006 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
#
# The script code starts here
#
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"mailman", ver:"2.1.5-8sarge2", rls:"DEB3.1")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if (report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}
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