CVE-2006-2941
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving "standards-breaking RFC 2231 formatted headers".
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-2938)
- Published
- September 6, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-2938 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
- gnu / mailman
References
- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0600.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21732(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21792(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21837(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21879(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22011(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22020(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22639(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-12.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016808
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=103&release_id=444295(Patch)
- http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mailman/trunk/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py?r1=7859&r2=7923(Patch)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:165
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19831
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-345-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3446
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28732
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9912
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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