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>> Mailman Attachment Filename Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Mailman Attachment Filename Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2404
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3573
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-11-14
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A vulnerability has been identified in Mailman, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct denial of service attacks. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "Scrubber.py" script that does not properly handle an email containing an attachment with "utf8" characters in its filename, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a specially crafted email to a vulnerable server.
Affected Products
Mailman version 2.1.5 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to version 2.1.7rc1.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2404
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327732
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes
ChangeLog
2005-11-14 : Initial release
2005-12-26 : Updated Solution
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