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Red Hat Security Advisory: Updated mailman packages are available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 4, 2000

Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:08 -0400
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com
Subject: [RHSA-2000:030-03] Updated mailman packages are
available.


                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Updated mailman packages are available.
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2000:030-03
Issue date:        2000-05-24
Updated on:        2000-08-03
Product:           Red Hat Secure Web Server
Keywords:          N/A
Cross references:  N/A

1. Topic:

New mailman packages are available which close security holes
present in earlier versions of mailman.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Secure Web Server 3.0 – i386
Red Hat Secure Web Server 3.1 – i386, alpha, sparc
Red Hat Secure Web Server 3.2 – i386

3. Problem description:

New mailman packages are available which close security holes
present in earlier versions of mailman. All sites using the mailman
mailing list management software should upgrade.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Secure Web Server 3.2:

i386:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/secureweb/3.2/i386/mailman-2.0beta5-1.i386.rpm

sources:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/secureweb/3.2/SRPMS/mailman-2.0beta5-1.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

3bec0ff832a99b87eb235229935fd2a0 3.2/SRPMS/mailman-2.0beta5-1.src.rpm
53561915ca8b245b98bd78f3e3a8fd9d 3.2/i386/mailman-2.0beta5-1.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command:
rpm –checksig –nogpg

8. References:

N/A

Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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