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CVE-2005-4153

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4153 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting GNU Mailman versions 2.1.4 through 2.1.6. Remote attackers can trigger an overflow error by sending a specially crafted message containing malformed date data, causing the server to crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailman:2.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0307 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: mailman-3:2.1.5.1-25.rhel3.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: mailman-3:2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-4153Moderate

security flaw

Sep 1, 2005

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
secunia.com / advisories/18449
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18456
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/18612
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19167
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19196
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19532
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23139
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10660
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-955
wwwnew.mandriva.com / security/advisories
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 21723
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2006-0204.html
securityfocus.com / bid/16248
trustix.org / errata/2006/0012
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-242-1