20819 : Mailman Scrubber.py utf8 Filename Processing DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2005-09-11

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-3573" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : 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).

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1015735
Bugtraq ID: 15408
Secunia Advisory ID: 17511 17874 18456 18612 19167 19196 19532
CVE ID: 2005-3573 (see also: NVD) 2005-3597 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 21723
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2005-2404
Other Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01.U.asc http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-955
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0012/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-242-1
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:222
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327732
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jan/0003.html
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2006:0204

Tools & Filters

Snort	12597
	20453 20789 21034 22821 24102

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-11-17 | Disagree?

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