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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0991

Original release date:03/03/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unknown vulnerability in the mail command handler in Mailman before 2.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed e-mail commands.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):
CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: XF
Name: mailman-command-handler-dos(15106)
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 9620
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:019
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-436
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [Mailman-Announce] 20040208 RELEASED: Mailman 2.0.14 patch-only release
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2004:013
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLA-2004:842
External Source: SGI
Name: 20040201-01-U

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:1.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:1.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.10
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.11
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.12
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.13
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.7
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.8
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0.9
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.0:beta5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:gnu:mailman:2.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:sgi:propack:2.3
* Denotes Vulnerable Software

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