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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : bogofilter vulnerability (USN-1667-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 63287

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Julius Plenz discovered that bogofilter incorrectly handled certain invalid base64 code. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote attacker could exploit this and cause bogofilter to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Solution

Update the affected bogofilter-bdb and / or bogofilter-sqlite packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1667-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 63287

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1667-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bogofilter-bdb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bogofilter-sqlite, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5468

BID: 56804

USN: 1667-1