CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-2494

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2010-07-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-07-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder in base64.c in (1) bogofilter and (2) bogolexer in bogofilter before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via an e-mail message with invalid base64 data that begins with an = (equals) character.

Affected configurations

• bogofilter bogofilter (<= 1.2.1) • bogofilter bogofilter 1.0.0 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.0.1 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.0.2 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.0.3 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.0 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.1 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.2 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.3 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.4 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.5 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.6 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.1.7 • bogofilter bogofilter 1.2.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References