CVE-2005-4153

HIGH 7.8CVE-2005-4153 · Published 11/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-4153 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting mailman (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mailman gnu	`= 2.1.4= 2.1.5= 2.1.6`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
secunia.com/advisories/18449 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/18456 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/18612 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/19167 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/19196 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/19532 · Vendor Advisory
debian.org/security/2006/dsa-955
osvdb.org/21723
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0204.html
securityfocus.com/bid/16248
trustix.org/errata/2006/0012
ubuntu.com/usn/usn-242-1
wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories · Patch

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mailman

gnu

= 2.1.4= 2.1.5= 2.1.6

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