CVE-2012-5468 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01 http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973 http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975 http://secunia.com/advisories/51334 http://secunia.com/advisories/51521 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524