Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | mailman vulnerabilities |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-242-1 | First vendor Publication | 2006-01-16 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2006-01-16 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.8 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: mailman The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.1.5-1ubuntu2.5 (for Ubuntu 4.10), 2.1.5-7ubuntu0.1 (for Ubuntu 5.04), or 2.1.5-8ubuntu2.1 (for Ubuntu 5.10). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the attachment handler. An email with an attachment whose filename contained invalid UTF-8 characters caused mailman to crash. (CVE-2005-3573) Mailman did not sufficiently verify the validity of email dates. Very large numbers in dates caused mailman to crash. (CVE-2005-4153) |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-242-1 |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10038 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10038 | ||
| Title: | Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash). | ||
| Description: | Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash). | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2005-3573 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CentOS Linux 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CentOS Linux 4 Oracle Linux 4 | Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10660 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10660 | ||
| Title: | Mailman 2.1.4 through 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a message that causes the server to "fail with an Overflow on bad date data in a processed message," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3573. | ||
| Description: | Mailman 2.1.4 through 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a message that causes the server to "fail with an Overflow on bad date data in a processed message," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3573. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2005-4153 | Version: | 5 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 CentOS Linux 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CentOS Linux 4 Oracle Linux 4 | Product(s): | |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 955-1 (clamav) File : nvt/deb_955_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 21723 | Mailman Message Processing Date Field Overflow |
| 20819 | Mailman Scrubber.py utf8 Filename Processing DoS |
Snort® IPS/IDS
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2015-03-27 | GNU Mailman date field buffer overflow attempt RuleID : 33564 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-MAIL |
| 2014-01-10 | utf8 filename transfer attempt RuleID : 12597 - Revision : 7 - Type : SERVER-OTHER |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2006-10-14 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-955.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-07-03 | Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update. File : centos_RHSA-2006-0204.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-03-08 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update. File : redhat-RHSA-2006-0204.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-01-21 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch. File : ubuntu_USN-242-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-01-15 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-222.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 12:03:15 |
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