CVE-2005-4591

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Bogofilter Email Filter: 0.93.5, 0.94.12, 0.94.14, 0.95.2, 0.96.2

References

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/
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

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