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CVE-2005-4591

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2006-01-07	bogofilter -- heap corruption through malformed input

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CVE-2005-4591 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2005-4591
Phase	Assigned(20060101)

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.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-01
SUSE	SUSE-SR:2006:003
UBUNTU	USN-240-1
BID	16171
VUPEN	ADV-2006-0100
SECUNIA	18352
SECUNIA	18427
SECUNIA	18717
XF	bogofilter-unicode-bo(24118)