DSA-2585-1 bogofilter -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2585-1 bogofilter -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

11 Dec 2012

Affected Packages:

bogofilter

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 695139.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-5468.

More information:

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in bogofilter, a software package for classifying mail messages as spam or non-spam. Crafted mail messages with invalid base64 data could lead to heap corruption and, potentially, arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2-2+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.2+dfsg1-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your bogofilter packages.