CVE-2005-4592 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex.

Reference

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-02 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18352 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/24119