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Sid
12597

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in Mailman.

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Impact:
Denial of Service.   

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Detailed Information:
Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash).

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Affected Systems:
GNU Mailman 24

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:


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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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