CVE-2005-3573

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-3573
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-11-16 07:42:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionScrubber.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).

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0 beta3 All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0 beta4 All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0 beta5 All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.10 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.11 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.12 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.13 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.14 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.5 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.6 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.7 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.8 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0.9 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.1.1 beta1 All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.1.4 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.1.5 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.1.5.8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0012 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
www.osvdb.org/20819 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wwwnew.mandriva.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - GNU Mailman 'Scrubber.py' Decoding Error May Let Remote Users Deny Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
Secunia - Advisories - SUSE update for multiple packages af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com
Secunia - Advisories - Trustix update for mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Debian update for mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
GNU Mailman Attachment Scrubber UTF8 Filename Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Secunia - Advisories - Mandriva update for mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-955-1 mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
SuSE Security announcements: [suse-security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2006:001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.suse.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Secunia - Advisories - Mailman Attachment Filename Scrubbing Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
#327732 - Messages with invalid filenames don't get archived - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
[Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: 'utf8' codeccan'tdecode bytes in position 1-4: invalid data af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mail.python.org
usn/usn-242-1 - Ubuntu Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
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