GNU Mailman up to 2.1b1 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in GNU Mailman up to 2.1b1. The impacted element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-2941. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in GNU Mailman up to 2.1b1 (Mail Client Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving "standards-breaking RFC 2231 formatted headers".

The bug was discovered 09/04/2006. The weakness was presented 09/05/2006 by Moritz Naumann (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at svn.sourceforge.net. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-2941 since 06/09/2006. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22429 (GLSA-200609-12 : Mailman: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 156192 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for Mailman (ELSA-2006:0600)).

Upgrading to version 2.1.9rc1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (28732), Tenable (22429), SecurityFocus (BID 19831†), OSVDB (28437†) and Secunia (SA21732†). See VDB-32351, VDB-32149 and VDB-32085 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 22429
Nessus Name: GLSA-200609-12 : Mailman: Multiple vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 57323
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: mailman, ja-mailman, mailman-with-htdig
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Mailman 2.1.9rc1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: gnu.org

Advisory: svn.sourceforge.net
Researcher: Moritz Naumann
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-2941 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-2941
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-32083

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X-Force: 28732
SecurityFocus: 19831 - GNU Mailman Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21732 - Mailman Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 28437 - GNU Mailman malformed headers denial of service
SecurityTracker: 1016808
Vulnerability Center: 12663 - Mailman Remote Denial of Service Via Unspecified Vectors, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-3446

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Created: 03/12/2015 15:51
Updated: 06/25/2019 07:23
Changes: 03/12/2015 15:51 (83), 06/25/2019 07:23 (10)
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