CVE-2005-4591 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-4591 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 142490 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:003, published Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:55:14 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:14:45 2023