SMTP: GNU Mailman Large Date Data Denial Of Service

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against GNU Mailman. A successful attack can result in a denial-of-service condition.

Extended Description

GNU Mailman is prone to a denial-of-service attack. This issue affects Mailman's email date parsing. The vulnerability could be triggered by mailing-list posts and will impact the availability of mailing lists hosted by the application.

Affected Products

Debian linux

References

BugTraq: 16248

CVE: CVE-2005-4153

Short Name
SMTP:DOS:GNU-MAILMAN-DATE-DOS
Severity
Minor
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
None
Category
SMTP
Keywords
CVE-2005-4153 Data Date Denial GNU Large Mailman Of Service bid:16248
Release Date
03/14/2013
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3375
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Suse

Trustix

Gnu

Sgi

Ubuntu

Mandriva

Debian

CVSS Score

7.8

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