Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : mailman vulnerability (USN-267-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21184

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the decoder for multipart messages. Certain parts of type 'message/delivery-status' or parts containing only two blank lines triggered an exception. An attacker could exploit this to crash Mailman by sending a specially crafted email to a mailing list.

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Solution

Update the affected mailman package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21184

File Name: ubuntu_USN-267-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mailman, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 4/3/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0202, CVE-2006-0052

USN: 267-1

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