what you don't know can hurt you
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-1153-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-1153-01
Posted Jun 23, 2015
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-1153-01 - Mailman is a program used to help manage email discussion lists. It was found that mailman did not sanitize the list name before passing it to certain MTAs. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the user running mailman. Previously, it was impossible to configure Mailman in a way that Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance would recognize Sender alignment for Domain Key Identified Mail signatures. Consequently, Mailman list subscribers that belonged to a mail server with a "reject" policy for DMARC, such as yahoo.com or AOL.com, were unable to receive Mailman forwarded messages from senders residing in any domain that provided DKIM signatures. With this update, domains with a "reject" DMARC policy are recognized correctly, and Mailman list administrators are able to configure the way these messages are handled. As a result, after a proper configuration, subscribers now correctly receive Mailman forwarded messages in this scenario.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, local
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2015-2775
SHA-256 | 3d985a75ad520e9d32dc40dc407d5272dec00095877d0f014e8d7835cae3ba1f

Red Hat Security Advisory 2015-1153-01

Change Mirror Download
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

=====================================================================
Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: mailman security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2015:1153-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1153.html
Issue date: 2015-06-23
CVE Names: CVE-2015-2775
=====================================================================

1. Summary:

Updated mailman packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

3. Description:

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

It was found that mailman did not sanitize the list name before passing it
to certain MTAs. A local attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary
code as the user running mailman. (CVE-2015-2775)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* Previously, it was impossible to configure Mailman in a way that
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) would
recognize Sender alignment for Domain Key Identified Mail (DKIM)
signatures. Consequently, Mailman list subscribers that belonged to a mail
server with a "reject" policy for DMARC, such as yahoo.com or AOL.com, were
unable to receive Mailman forwarded messages from senders residing in any
domain that provided DKIM signatures. With this update, domains with a
"reject" DMARC policy are recognized correctly, and Mailman list
administrators are able to configure the way these messages are handled. As
a result, after a proper configuration, subscribers now correctly receive
Mailman forwarded messages in this scenario. (BZ#1229288)

* Previously, the /etc/mailman file had incorrectly set permissions, which
in some cases caused removing Mailman lists to fail with a "'NoneType'
object has no attribute 'close'" message. With this update, the permissions
value for /etc/mailman is correctly set to 2775 instead of 0755, and
removing Mailman lists now works as expected. (BZ#1229307)

* Prior to this update, the mailman utility incorrectly installed the
tmpfiles configuration in the /etc/tmpfiles.d/ directory. As a consequence,
changes made to mailman tmpfiles configuration were overwritten if the
mailman packages were reinstalled or updated. The mailman utility now
installs the tmpfiles configuration in the /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ directory,
and changes made to them by the user are preserved on reinstall or update.
(BZ#1229306)

All mailman users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1208059 - CVE-2015-2775 mailman: directory traversal in MTA transports that deliver programmatically
1229288 - Yahoo.com and AOL DMARC reject policies cripples Mailman-2.1.12 - update to newer release
1229307 - /etc/mailman has wrong permissions 0755 instead of 2775

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):

Source:
mailman-2.1.15-21.el7_1.src.rpm

ppc64:
mailman-2.1.15-21.el7_1.ppc64.rpm
mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.el7_1.ppc64.rpm

s390x:
mailman-2.1.15-21.el7_1.s390x.rpm
mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.el7_1.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
mailman-2.1.15-21.el7_1.x86_64.rpm
mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.el7_1.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):

Source:
mailman-2.1.15-21.ael7b_1.src.rpm

ppc64le:
mailman-2.1.15-21.ael7b_1.ppc64le.rpm
mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.ael7b_1.ppc64le.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):

Source:
mailman-2.1.15-21.el7_1.src.rpm

x86_64:
mailman-2.1.15-21.el7_1.x86_64.rpm
mailman-debuginfo-2.1.15-21.el7_1.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2775
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

iD8DBQFViUs9XlSAg2UNWIIRAuYlAJ4q2rAStzwEbV1JGGjKY4tb1lhP/gCcCb5A
btptJT3G85uqbP5yWdDNJoU=
=xWgW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


--
RHSA-announce mailing list
RHSA-announce@redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhsa-announce
Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

April 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Apr 1st
    10 Files
  • 2
    Apr 2nd
    26 Files
  • 3
    Apr 3rd
    40 Files
  • 4
    Apr 4th
    6 Files
  • 5
    Apr 5th
    26 Files
  • 6
    Apr 6th
    0 Files
  • 7
    Apr 7th
    0 Files
  • 8
    Apr 8th
    22 Files
  • 9
    Apr 9th
    14 Files
  • 10
    Apr 10th
    10 Files
  • 11
    Apr 11th
    13 Files
  • 12
    Apr 12th
    14 Files
  • 13
    Apr 13th
    0 Files
  • 14
    Apr 14th
    0 Files
  • 15
    Apr 15th
    30 Files
  • 16
    Apr 16th
    10 Files
  • 17
    Apr 17th
    22 Files
  • 18
    Apr 18th
    45 Files
  • 19
    Apr 19th
    8 Files
  • 20
    Apr 20th
    0 Files
  • 21
    Apr 21st
    0 Files
  • 22
    Apr 22nd
    11 Files
  • 23
    Apr 23rd
    68 Files
  • 24
    Apr 24th
    23 Files
  • 25
    Apr 25th
    0 Files
  • 26
    Apr 26th
    0 Files
  • 27
    Apr 27th
    0 Files
  • 28
    Apr 28th
    0 Files
  • 29
    Apr 29th
    0 Files
  • 30
    Apr 30th
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close