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FKIE_CVE-2020-9369

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-02-24 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:27
Summary
Sympa 6.2.38 through 6.2.52 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption from temporary files, and a flood of notifications to listmasters) via a series of requests with malformed parameters.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/
cve@mitre.orghttps://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/886Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6TMVZ5LVYCCIHGEC7RQUMGUE7DJWUXN7/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A3FUYYLV6URRLAJVWXNJYK2CNOKKNHXC/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XO4WJYNNHWM7DUKCN4EWYYYPXZSOI7BQ/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-001.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4818Third Party Advisory
Impacted products

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          "vendor": "n/a",
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            }
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        }
      ],
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    }
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:27:49.733",
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