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CVE-2010-2494

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2010-07-06	bogofilter -- heap underrun on malformed base64 input

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CVE-2010-2494 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2010-2494
Phase	Assigned(20100628)

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.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20100705 Re: Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder
MLIST	[oss-security] 20100705 Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder
MLIST	[oss-security] 20100706 REPOST: CVE request for bogofilter
MLIST	[oss-security] 20100706 Re: Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder
CONFIRM	http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2010-01
CONFIRM	http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-SA-2010-01?revision=6909&pathrev=6909
CONFIRM	http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/src/base64.c?view=patch&r1=6906&r2=6903
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551
FEDORA	FEDORA-2010-13139
FEDORA	FEDORA-2010-13154
SUSE	SUSE-SR:2010:014
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:0166
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1648
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1650
UBUNTU	USN-980-1
BID	41339
OSVDB	66002
SECUNIA	40427
SECUNIA	41239
VUPEN	ADV-2010-2233