USN-242-1: mailman vulnerabilities

16 January 2006

mailman vulnerabilities

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Details

Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes discovered a remote Denial of Service
vulnerability in the attachment handler. An email with an attachment
whose filename contained invalid UTF-8 characters caused mailman to
crash. (CVE-2005-3573)

Mailman did not sufficiently verify the validity of email dates. Very
large numbers in dates caused mailman to crash. (CVE-2005-4153)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.10
  • mailman -
Ubuntu 5.04
  • mailman -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • mailman -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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