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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56374
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2006:0204
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-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.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0204.html

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.8

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-3573
BugTraq ID: 15408
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
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-4153
BugTraq ID: 16248
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16248
http://www.osvdb.org/21723
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10660
http://secunia.com/advisories/18449
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