Vulnerability CVE-2012-5468
Published: 2012-12-17   Modified: 2012-12-18

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.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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 project -> Bogofilter 
Bogofilter -> Bogofilter 

 References:
http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80524
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585
http://secunia.com/advisories/51521
http://secunia.com/advisories/51334
http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
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