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USN-980-1: bogofilter vulnerability

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USN-980-1: bogofilter vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/08/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Multiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder in base64.c in (1) bogofilter and (2) bogolexer in bogofilter before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via an e-mail message with invalid base64 data that begins with an = (equals) character.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-bogofilter-bdb
  • ubuntu-upgrade-bogofilter-sqlite

References

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