CVE-2012-5468
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 18, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 24, 2012
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- MDVSA-2013:064vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20121204 CVE-2012-5468: bogofilter-SA-2012-01mailing-list
- 51521third-party-advisory
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
- 56804vdb-entry
- DSA-2585vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
- 51334third-party-advisory
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
- bogofilter-bogolexer-base64-dos(80524)vdb-entry
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
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