CVE-2005-4591 (GCVE-0-2005-4591)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-01-09 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 23:53
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/240-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/18717 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/18352 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/18427 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2006-01-09 00:00
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