ubuntu · CVE-2012-5468

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Priority: medium Published: 2012-12-11 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2024-07-24 15:57:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-5468 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (bogofilter), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, upstream): released 5, ignored 1.

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.

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