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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55932
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:222 (mailman)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to mailman
announced via advisory MDKSA-2005:222.

Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.4 - 2.1.6 does not properly handle UTF8
character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2005-3573)

In addition, these versions of mailman have an issue where the server
will fail with an Overflow on bad date data in a processed message.

The version of mailman in Corporate Server 2.1 does not contain the
above vulnerable code.

Updated packages are patched to correct these issues.

Affected: 10.1, 10.2, 2006.0, Corporate 3.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2005:222

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 15408
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3573
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15408
Debian Security Information: DSA-955 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-955
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:222
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-September/046523.html
http://www.osvdb.org/20819
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10038
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0204.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015735
http://secunia.com/advisories/17511
http://secunia.com/advisories/17874
http://secunia.com/advisories/18456
http://secunia.com/advisories/18503
http://secunia.com/advisories/18612
http://secunia.com/advisories/19167
http://secunia.com/advisories/19196
http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
SGI Security Advisory: 20060401-01-U
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:001 (Google Search)
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0003.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0012/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-242-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2404
XForce ISS Database: mailman-utf8-scrubber-dos(23139)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23139
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