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CVE-2005-4591

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
31/12/2005
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:bogofilter:email_filter:0.93.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:bogofilter:email_filter:0.94.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:bogofilter:email_filter:0.94.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:bogofilter:email_filter:0.95.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:bogofilter:email_filter:0.96.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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