A vulnerability has been fixed in bogofilter, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2010-99 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2010-08-02
Severity: 3
Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in bogofilter, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially
compromise a vulnerable system.
Description
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CVE-2010-2494:
Multiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder in base64.c in (1)
bogofilter and (2) bogolexer in bogofilter before 1.2.2 allow remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and
application crash) via an e-mail message with invalid base64 data that
begins with an = (equals) character.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2009:
bogofilter, all before 1.2.1-16-4
Resolution
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There are update(s) for bogofilter. You can update them via Package
Manager or with a single command from console:
pisi up bogofilter
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id690
* http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2494
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?ida1551
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