CVE-2012-5468

Heap-based buffer overflow in iconvert.c in the bogolexer component in Bogofilter before 1.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an email containing a base64 string that is decoded to incomplete multibyte characters.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2012-12-18

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Bogofilter (Bogofilter Project)

References

• http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
• http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
• http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51334
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51521
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524