RHEL 4 : mailman (RHSA-2007:0779)

low Nessus Plugin ID 28241

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated mailman packages that fix a security issue and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Mailman is a program used to help manage email discussion lists.

A flaw was found in Mailman. A remote attacker could spoof messages in the error log, and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious URLs via a carriage return/line feed sequence in the URI.
(CVE-2006-4624)

As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs :

* canceling a subscription on the confirm subscription request page caused mailman to crash.

* editing the sender filter caused all spam filter rules to be deleted.

* the migrate-fhs script was not included.

* the mailman init script returned a zero (success) exit code even when an incorrect command was given. For example, the 'mailman foo' command returned a zero exit code. In these updated packages the mailmain init script returns the correct exit codes.

Users of Mailman are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2006-4624

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0779

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 28241

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0779.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 11/15/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-4624

CWE: 94

RHSA: 2007:0779