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CVE-2012-5468
N/ADescription
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.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published12/18/2012
Last Modified4/29/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
bogofilter_project:bogofilter
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-119
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/51334(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/51521(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804(cve@mitre.org)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358(cve@mitre.org)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524(cve@mitre.org)
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/51334(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/51521(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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