CVE-2005-4591

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter 0.96.2, 0.95.2, 0.94.14, 0.94.12, and other versions from 0.93.5 to 0.96.2, when using Unicode databases, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via "invalid input sequences" that lead to heap corruption when bogofilter or bogolexer converts character sets.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/240-1/

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24118

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171

http://secunia.com/advisories/18717

http://secunia.com/advisories/18427

http://secunia.com/advisories/18352

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-01

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3