CVE-2012-5468 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a crash or execute arbitrary code via a crafted email with malformed base64 data in Bogofilter.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2012-5468?
CVE-2012-5468 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Dec 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5468?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Bogofilter Project Bogofilter.
How do I fix CVE-2012-5468?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2012-5468 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5468 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5468, DSA-2585-1, GHSA-pv39-69p9-h38r.