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CVE-2012-5468

Published: 11 December 2012

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.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
bogofilter
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Ignored
(end of life)
lucid
Released (1.2.1-0ubuntu1.2)
oneiric
Released (1.2.2-3ubuntu1.1)
precise
Released (1.2.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.12.04.1)
quantal
Released (1.2.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.12.10.1)
upstream
Released (1.2.2+dfsg1-2)
Patches:
upstream: http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
upstream: http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
upstream: http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6986