CVE-2010-2494

bogofilter < 1.2.2 - Denial of Service via Base64 Decoder Buffer Underflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (20)

Core 20
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046558.html
Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127840569013531&w=2
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/40427
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/41239
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/66002
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127844323105405&w=2
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2233
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41339
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046590.html
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127814747231102&w=2
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-980-1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127831760712436&w=2

Scores

EPSS 0.0344
EPSS Percentile 87.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (14)
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.0.0
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.0.1
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.0.2
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.0.3
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.1.0
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.1.1
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.1.2
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.1.3
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.1.4
bogofilter/bogofilter 1.1.5
... and 4 more
Published Jul 08, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026