CVE-2006-0052

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The attachment scrubber (Scrubber.py) in Mailman 2.1.5 and earlier, when using Python's library email module 2.5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (mailing list delivery failure) via a multipart MIME message with a single part that has two blank lines between the first boundary and the end boundary.

Affected products

GNU Mailman: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.0-beta3, 2.0-beta4, 2.0-beta5 (+21)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358892
http://secunia.com/advisories/19522
http://secunia.com/advisories/19545
http://secunia.com/advisories/19571
http://secunia.com/advisories/20624
http://secunia.com/advisories/20782
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015851
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1027
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:061
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_08_sr.html
http://www.osvdb.org/24367

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