Debian Security Advisory: Mailman exploitability

Aug 07, 2000, 07:06 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Martin Schulze)

Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 14:23:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Martin Schulze joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE
To: Debian Security Announcements
Subject: [Security] Mailman exploitability

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Debian Security Advisory                                 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                           Martin Schulze 
August 5, 2000

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Package: mailman
Vulnerability: local mailman group exploit
Debian-specific: no

Former versions of mailman v2.0 came with a security problem, introduced during the 2.0 beta cycle, that could be exploited by clever local users to gain group mailman permission. No exploit does exist at the moment, though.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink

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Slink comes with version 1.0 that is not vulnerable.

Debian 2.2 alias potato

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Potato comes with version 1.1 that is not vulnerable.

Debian Unstable alias woody

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This version of Debian is not yet released and reflects the current development release. Fixes are currently available for Intel ia32 and Motorola 680x0. Fixes for other architectures will be available soon. In doubt, please recompile the package from source on your own.

Source archives:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/mail/mailman_2.0beta5-1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 177e666144c35d6b945b30dddf567fef
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/mail/mailman_2.0beta5-1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 431d66e4ef496ce48463ed55193d375c
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/source/mail/mailman_2.0beta5.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 2c2602b7745a56adecd4f24fdd6d446f

Intel ia32 architecture:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/mail/mailman_2.0beta5-1.deb
MD5 checksum: e2a071bf4a9a3be02978df47ed58acb6

Motorola 680x0 architecture:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-m68k/mail/mailman_2.0beta5-1.deb
MD5 checksum: 8bb6367c1e249beaaaa8eb3b7fc71c27

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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