Vulnerability CVE-2005-4591
Published: 2005-12-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter 0.96.2, 0.95.2, 0.94.14, 0.94.12, and other versions from 0.93.5 to 0.96.2, when using Unicode databases, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via "invalid input sequences" that lead to heap corruption when bogofilter or bogolexer converts character sets.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Bogofilter -> Email filter 

 References:
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-01
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24118
https://usn.ubuntu.com/240-1/
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