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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56534
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1027-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mailman' package(s) announced via the DSA-1027-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'mailman' package(s) announced via the DSA-1027-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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.

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.

Affected Software/OS:
'mailman' package(s) on Debian 3.1.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-0052
BugTraq ID: 17311
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17311
Debian Security Information: DSA-1027 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1027
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:061
http://www.osvdb.org/24367
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9475
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0486.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015851
http://secunia.com/advisories/19522
http://secunia.com/advisories/19545
http://secunia.com/advisories/19571
http://secunia.com/advisories/20624
http://secunia.com/advisories/20782
SGI Security Advisory: 20060602-01-U
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:008 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_08_sr.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/267-1/
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