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Ubuntu 4.10 : bogofilter vulnerability (USN-26-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20641

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in bogofilter. The quoted-printable decoder handled certain Base-64 encoded strings in an invalid way which caused a buffer overflow and an immediate program abort.

The exact impact depends on the way bogofilter is integrated into the system. In common setups, the mail that contains such malformed headers is deferred by the mail delivery agent and remains in the queue, where it will eventually bounce back to the sender.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected bogofilter package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20641

File Name: ubuntu_USN-26-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bogofilter, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 11/17/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1007

USN: 26-1