CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-4591
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• bogofilter email filter 0.93.5
• bogofilter email filter 0.94.12
• bogofilter email filter 0.94.14
• bogofilter email filter 0.95.2
• bogofilter email filter 0.96.2
References
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-01 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html lists.suse.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18352 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18427 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18717 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24118 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/240-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-01 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html lists.suse.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18352 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18427 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18717 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24118 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/240-1/ usn.ubuntu.com