CVE-2012-5468
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| bogofilter_project | bogofilter | {"endIncluding":"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 | |
References
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51334
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51521
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5468
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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