CVE-2012-5468

critical

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585

http://secunia.com/advisories/51521

http://secunia.com/advisories/51334

http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-12-18

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical