CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5468

7.5 HIGH Published 2012-12-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-12-18
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
Weaknesses
CWE-119

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.

Affected configurations

• bogofilter project bogofilter (<= 1.2.2) • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.0.0 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.0.1 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.0.2 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.0.3 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.0 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.1 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.2 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.3 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.4 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.5 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.6 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.1.7 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.2.0 • bogofilter project bogofilter 1.2.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References