Red Hat recently sent out the following. I don't use the Red Hat rpms, but have installed mailman on my own, so naturally I wonder what security holes they are talking about. In what versions of Mailman do they exist?

From: bugzilla@redhat.com Subject: [RHSA-2000:030-01] Updated mailman packages are available. To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:24 -0400

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       Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis: Updated mailman packages are available. Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:030-01 Issue date: 2000-05-24 Updated on: 2000-05-24 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:

intel: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/secureweb/3.2/i386/mailman-2.0beta2-1.i386.rpm

sources: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/secureweb/3.2/SRPMS/mailman-2.0beta2-1.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name

4515cf682bfb0c4a87c9ac6def8d5ec7 3.2/SRPMS/mailman-2.0beta2-1.src.rpm ccaf8e103c609bfa7769dfff4cf7f532 3.2/i386/mailman-2.0beta2-1.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 <filename>

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 <filename>

8. References:

N/A