[SECURITY] New versions of mailman fixes cookie attack

From: debian-security-announceat_private
Date: Tue Jun 22 1999 - 21:06:34 PDT

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    We have become aware that the version mailman as supplied in Debian
    GNU/Linux 2.1 has a problem with verifying list administrators. The
    problem is that the cookie value generation used was predictable, so
    using forged authentication cookies it was possible to access the
    list administration webpages without knowing the proper password.
    More information about this vulnerability can be found at
    http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/1999-June/001128.html
    
    This has been fixed in version 1.0rc2-5.
    
    We recommend you upgrade your mailman package immediately.
    
    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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      This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
      680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
    
      Source archives:
        http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-source/mailman_1.0rc2-5.diff.gz
          MD5 checksum: 096d96ebf89341b148d2ae917037559a
        http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-source/mailman_1.0rc2-5.dsc
          MD5 checksum: a407c72b6d80163b04ddc5fb895b8fbd
        http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-source/mailman_1.0rc2.orig.tar.gz
          MD5 checksum: 6916959db9144ecaf004fcd9be32a020
    
      Alpha architecture:
        http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/mailman_1.0rc2-5_alpha.deb
          MD5 checksum: 0f053b62d9dd51d4e2c0843258eee453
    
      Intel ia32 architecture:
        http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/mailman_1.0rc2-5_i386.deb
          MD5 checksum: d9b0f93458a41055ba1b39891e0a5ca5
    
      Motorola 680x0 architecture:
        http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/mailman_1.0rc2-5_m68k.deb
          MD5 checksum: 94fc7996e4b296a4c944fe08ccb44503
    
      Sun Sparc architecture:
        http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/mailman_1.0rc2-5_sparc.deb
          MD5 checksum: e27d100b24d0c87c02cc86b7aadded0d
    
    
    
      These files will be copied into
      ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.
    
    Please note you can also use apt to always get the latest security
    updates. To do so add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
    
      deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
    
    
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