CVE-2005-4591 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter 0.96.2 0.95.2 0.94.14 0.94.12 and other versions from 0.93.5 to 0.96.2 when using Unicode databases allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via \invalid input sequences\ that lead to heap corruption when bogofilter or bogolexer converts character sets.

Reference

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-01 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18352 http://secunia.com/advisories/18427 http://secunia.com/advisories/18717 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24118 https://usn.ubuntu.com/240-1/