Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Mailman, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of dates, which generates an OverflowError exception. This can be exploited to crash Mailman by supplying overly large numbers in dates.
Solution: Use another product.
Provided and/or discovered by: First reported in an Ubuntu advisory.
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