Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56562
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-267-1 (mailman)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-267-1 (mailman)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to mailman announced via advisory USN-267-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: mailman A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the decoder for multipart messages. Certain parts of type message/delivery-status or parts containing only two blank lines triggered an exception. An attacker could exploit this to crash Mailman by sending a specially crafted email to a mailing list. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.1.5-1ubuntu2.7 (for Ubuntu 4.10), 2.1.5-7ubuntu0.2 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 2.1.5-8ubuntu2.2 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-267-1 Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 17311 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-0052 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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0486.html 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 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-267-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17311 http://www.osvdb.org/24367 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9475 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015851 http://secunia.com/advisories/19545 http://secunia.com/advisories/19522 http://secunia.com/advisories/19571 http://secunia.com/advisories/20624 http://secunia.com/advisories/20782
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