CVE-2010-2494

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2233

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-980-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41339

http://www.osvdb.org/66002

http://secunia.com/advisories/41239

http://secunia.com/advisories/40427

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127844323105405&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127840569013531&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127831760712436&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127814747231102&w=2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00021.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046590.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046558.html

http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/src/base64.c?view=patch&r1=6906&r2=6903

http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-SA-2010-01?revision=6909&pathrev=6909

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2010-01

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3