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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2006-2941 json

Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving "standards-breaking RFC 2231…

published 2006-09-06 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-2938

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mailman before 2.1.9rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving "standards-breaking RFC 2231 formatted headers".

Patch / fix

  • mailman RHEL 3 3:2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.7
  • mailman RHEL 4 3:2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0600

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-2941 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 mailman 2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 mailman 2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 mailman 2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 mailman 2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 mailman 2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 mailman 2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 mailman 2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 mailman 2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0600

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Exploit prediction

2.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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