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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4624

Original release date:09/07/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

CRLF injection vulnerability in Utils.py in Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to spoof messages in the error log and possibly trick the administrator into visiting malicious URLs via CRLF sequences in the URI.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:2.6 (LOW) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/05/2007): Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205651 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact and expects to release a future update to address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3 which are in maintenance mode. This bug will be addressed in a future update of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3446

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3446

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=103&release_id=444295

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=103&release_id=444295

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21732

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21732