GNU Mailman MIME Multipart Parsing Error in 'scrubber.py' May Let Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1015851
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1015851
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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0052
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Mar 30 2006
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Impact: Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 2.1.5
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in GNU Mailman. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can send an e-mail containing malformed MIME multiparts to potentially cause the mailing list to become inoperative.
The vulnerability resides in 'scrubber.py'.
Duncan S. Salada discovered this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user can cause the list to become inoperative.
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Solution: The vendor issued a fix in version 2.1.6.
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Vendor URL: mailman.sourceforge.net/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Input validation error, State error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:24 -0500
Subject: GNU Mailman vulnerability
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CVE-2006-0052
A potential denial of service problem has been discovered in mailman,
the web-based GNU mailing list manager. The (failing) parsing of
messages with malformed mime multiparts sometimes caused the whole
mailing list to become inoperative.
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