CVE-2012-5468
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2012-5468 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2012-12-18 01:55:03 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
NetworkAccess Complexity
LowAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
PartialIntegrity
PartialAvailability
PartialAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.0.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.1.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.2.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | 1.2.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Bogofilter Project | Bogofilter | All | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| bogofilter CVE-2012-5468 Heap Memory Corruption Vulnerability | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | |
| Security Advisory SA51521 - Debian update for bogofilter - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:064 | Mandriva | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.mandriva.com | |
| oss-security - CVE-2012-5468: bogofilter-SA-2012-01 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.openwall.com | |
| bogofilter -- Fast Bayesian Spam Filter / Code / [r7018] | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net | Patch |
| 883358 – (CVE-2012-5468) CVE-2012-5468 bogofilter: Heap-based buffer overflow by decoding invalid base64 code (that decodes to incomplete multibyte characters) | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.redhat.com | |
| Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2585-1 bogofilter | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.debian.org | |
| bogofilter -- Fast Bayesian Spam Filter / Code / [r7018] | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net | Exploit |
| Encountered a 404 error | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bogofilter.sourceforge.net | Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| Security Advisory SA51334 - bogofilter Base64 Character Set Conversion Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | Vendor Advisory |
| IBM X-Force Exchange | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.