PT-2012-5984 · Bogofilter+1 · Bogofilter+1

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2012-12-17 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-5468

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bogofilter versions prior to 1.2.3

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the iconvert.c file within the bogolexer component. This can be triggered by an email containing a base64 string that decodes to incomplete multibyte characters, potentially allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2.3, update to version 1.2.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5468

DSA-2585-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10502-1

SUSE-SU-2012_1652-1

Affected Products

Bogofilter

Suse

References · 21

• 🔥 http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-5468 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5468 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51334 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51521 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5468 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5468 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5468 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2012-December/000314.html · Note
• http://lists.suse.com/mailman/listinfo/sle-security-updates · Note
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5468.html · Note