CVE-2005-3573 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Mailman application by sending emails with specially crafted UTF-8 attachment filenames.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2005-3573?
CVE-2005-3573 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Nov 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Scrubber.py in Mailman 2.1.5-8 does not properly handle UTF8 character encodings in filenames of e-mail attachments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-3573?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gnu Mailman.
How do I fix CVE-2005-3573?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-3573 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-3573 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as CVE-2005-3597, GHSA-p59g-55fw-7q46.