[Centos] full-d] Administrivia: List Compromised due to Mailman Vulnerability (fwd)

Wed Feb 9 19:53:32 UTC 2005
seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:41 -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> Sorry for the cross post, but this is an important one 
> potentially affecting all recipients.
> 
> This just crossed the Full Disclosure mailman moderated 
> mailing list.  It bears a careful read, and thought about 
> whether a response is needed.
> 
> The implication is that if there is any use of a mailman 
> password in common with a password you 'care' about, you need 
> to take appropriate action at once.  Also some backends merge 
> Bugzilla and mailman password stores, which can cause 
> unexpected secondary effects.
> 
> I have not seen a patch yet, and so one has to assume that the 
> configs and passwords for all mailman moderated mailing lists 
> are compromised.  Once a fix issues, Mailman moderators will 
> want to do a global password change, and local list 
> modification.
> 

the patch to mailman came out weeks ago unless this is a new password
exposure bug.

-sv