CVE-2012-5468

Publication date 11 December 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
bogofilter	12.10 quantal	Fixed 1.2.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.12.10.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.2.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
	11.10 oneiric	Fixed 1.2.2-3ubuntu1.1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
bogofilter	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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-1667-1
bogofilter vulnerability
17 December 2012

CVE-2012-5468

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