7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-5468

Published: 18/12/2012 Updated: 29/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in iconvert.c in the bogolexer component in Bogofilter prior to 1.2.3 allows remote malicious users 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.

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Debian Bug report logs - #695139 bogofilter-common: CVE-2012-5468 Package: bogofilter-common; Maintainer for bogofilter-common is Adrian Bunk <bunk@debianorg>; Source for bogofilter-common is src:bogofilter (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 15:21:02 UTC Se ...
bogofilter could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted email ...
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 122-2+squeeze1 For ...