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CVE-2005-4592

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2006-01-07 bogofilter -- heap corruption through excessively long words

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-4592
Phase Assigned(20060101)

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-02
SUSE SUSE-SR:2006:003
BID 16171
VUPEN ADV-2006-0100
SECUNIA 18352
SECUNIA 18717
XF bogofilter-long-word-bo(24119)