CVE-2006-0052

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-0052
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerdebian
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-03-31 11:06:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe attachment scrubber (Scrubber.py) in Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier, when using Python's library email module 2.5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mailing list delivery failure) via a multipart MIME message with a single part that has two blank lines between the first boundary and the end boundary.

Risk And Classification

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

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

EPSS: 0.064090000 probability, percentile 0.910660000 (date 2026-04-19)

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 1.0 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Mailman 2.0 All All All
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 All 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 2.1b1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
GNU Mailman Attachment Scrubber Malformed MIME Message Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - GNU Mailman MIME Multipart Parsing Error in 'scrubber.py' May Let Remote Users Deny Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
Red Hat update for mailman - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Secunia - Advisories - Ubuntu update for mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060602-01-U.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Debian update for mailman - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.osvdb.org/24367 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1027-1 mailman af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
#358892 - Uncaught runner exception: len() of unsized object - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Patch
USN-267-1: mailman vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
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