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CVE-2012-5468

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-12-03	bogofilter -- heap corruption by invalid base64 input

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CVE-2012-5468 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-5468
Phase	Assigned(20121024)

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.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20121204 CVE-2012-5468: bogofilter-SA-2012-01
MISC	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
CONFIRM	http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
CONFIRM	http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
CONFIRM	http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
DEBIAN	DSA-2585
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2013:064
BID	56804
SECUNIA	51334
SECUNIA	51521
XF	bogofilter-bogolexer-base64-dos(80524)