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title: "CVE-2006-0052\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2006-0052

Publication date 31 March 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The 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.

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| mailman | 7.04 feisty | Not affected |
| 6.10 edgy | Fixed 2.1.8-2ubuntu2 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Fixed 2.1.5-9ubuntu4.1 |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0052)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0052)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2006-0052)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-0052)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-267-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-267-1)
+ mailman vulnerability
+ 4 April 2006

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-0052>