CVE-2012-5468

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-12-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Bogofilter Project Bogofilter: through 1.2.2; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.0, 1.1.1 (+8)

References

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
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01

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