CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-4153

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Mailman versions 2.1.4 through 2.1.6 contain a denial of service vulnerability where a message with malformed date data causes a buffer overflow and server crash.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely cause the mail server to become unavailable, disrupting mailing lists and organizational communication.

Recommendation

Upgrade Mailman to version 2.1.7 or later, which fixes this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Mailman 2.1.4 through 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a message that causes the server to "fail with an Overflow on bad date data in a processed message," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3573.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS