CVE-2010-2494
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.44%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.44% probability · 88th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- bogofilter/bogofilter
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2010-01
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-SA-2010-01?revision=6909&pathrev=6909
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/src/base64.c?view=patch&r1=6906&r2=6903Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046558.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046590.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00021.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127814747231102&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127831760712436&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127840569013531&w=2Patch
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127844323105405&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40427Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41239
- http://www.osvdb.org/66002
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41339
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-980-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2233
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2010-01
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-SA-2010-01?revision=6909&pathrev=6909
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/src/base64.c?view=patch&r1=6906&r2=6903Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046558.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046590.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00021.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127814747231102&w=2
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.