CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2191

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-09-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2006-09-19
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Format string vulnerability in Mailman before 2.1.9 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this vulnerability, stating that it is "unexploitable.

Affected configurations

• gnu mailman (<= 2.1.8)

References

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html Patch
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20060906.155339.0c0732a4.en.html people.debian.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/21732 secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/22639 secunia.com
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html www.novell.com
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2006-September/000087.html Patch
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20060906.155339.0c0732a4.en.html people.debian.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/21732 secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/22639 secunia.com
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_25_sr.html www.novell.com