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Posted on 08 December 2012
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TITLE:
bogofilter Base64 Character Set Conversion Denial of Service
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51334
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-12-07
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in bogofilter, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "convert()"
function (src/iconvert.c) when converting the character set and can
be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via specially
crafted base64 string.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 1.2.2 and prior.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.3 (r6973).
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Julius Plenz
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
bogofilter-SA-2012-01:
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
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