A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the decoder for multipart messages. Certain parts of type “message/delivery-status” or parts containing only two blank lines triggered an exception. An attacker could exploit this to crash Mailman by sending a specially crafted email to a mailing list.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
4 April 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the decoder for multipart messages. Certain parts of type “message/delivery-status” or parts containing only two blank lines triggered an exception. An attacker could exploit this to crash Mailman by sending a specially crafted email to a mailing list.
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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