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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2001.539 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-094-1
mailman cross-site scripting problem
17 December 2001
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: mailman
Vendor: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
Platform: Alpha
ARM
i386
Motorola 680x0
PowerPC
SPARC
Impact: Reduced Security
Access Required: Remote
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-094-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
December 16, 2001
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Package : mailman
Problem type : cross-site scripting hole
Debian-specific: no
Barry A. Warsaw reported several cross-site scripting security holes
in Mailman, due to non-existent escaping of CGI variables.
These have been fixed upstream in version 2.0.8, and the relevant
patches have been backported to version 1.1-10 in Debian.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mailman_1.1-10.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: a9ae9e389e13622a9dd8a70a6a57f2b7
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mailman_1.1-10.dsc
MD5 checksum: 8c77bc3c07be39e8ced4d85882eedf21
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mailman_1.1.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 42d499f4e1de6959c50b20a4eb0f432a
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/mailman_1.1-10_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 67f8c3c723ec8797117d1fed29f41369
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/mailman_1.1-10_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 80d1fbee3ae7bab5e73ce860b4d8da87
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/mailman_1.1-10_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 27c9d400360a99b39954f563f5d0ed43
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/mailman_1.1-10_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 2a62ce782f5510f24458050e4c3331d9
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/mailman_1.1-10_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 9239fc74b76ec983b3009a194dc4ce2c
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/mailman_1.1-10_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: ad498878cdc9901e92e4b775e023f610
These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
revision.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .
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apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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