Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the attachment handler. An email with an attachment whose filename contained invalid UTF-8 characters caused mailman to crash. (CVE-2005-3573)
Mailman did not sufficiently verify the validity of email dates. Very large numbers in dates caused mailman to crash. (CVE-2005-4153)
16 January 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in the attachment handler. An email with an attachment whose filename contained invalid UTF-8 characters caused mailman to crash. (CVE-2005-3573)
Mailman did not sufficiently verify the validity of email dates. Very large numbers in dates caused mailman to crash. (CVE-2005-4153)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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