Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2013:064 First vendor Publication 2013-04-08
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2013-04-08
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Updated bogofilter package fixes security vulnerability:

In bogofilter before 1.2.3, bogofilter's/bogolexer's base64 could overwrite heap memory in the character set conversion in certain pathological cases of invalid base64 code that decodes to incomplete multibyte characters (CVE-2012-5468).

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18000
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18000
Title: USN-1667-1 -- bogofilter vulnerability
Description: bogofilter could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted email.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1667-1
CVE-2012-5468
Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 10.04
Product(s): bogofilter
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18437
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18437
Title: DSA-2585-1 bogofilter - heap-based buffer overflow
Description: A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in bogofilter, a software package for classifying mail messages as spam or non-spam. Crafted mail messages with invalid base64 data could lead to heap corruption and, potentially, arbitrary code execution.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2585-1
CVE-2012-5468
Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Product(s): bogofilter
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 14

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2013-09-18 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2585-1 (bogofilter - buffer overflow)
File : nvt/deb_2585_1.nasl
2012-12-18 Name : Ubuntu Update for bogofilter USN-1667-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1667_1.nasl
2012-12-14 Name : Fedora Update for bogofilter FEDORA-2012-19705
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_19705_bogofilter_fc17.nasl
2012-12-14 Name : Fedora Update for bogofilter FEDORA-2012-19740
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2012_19740_bogofilter_fc16.nasl
2012-12-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: bogofilter
File : nvt/freebsd_bogofilter3.nasl

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-064.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_bogofilter-121205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19664.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-18 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1667-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-17 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2585.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19705.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2012-19740.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-12-04 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_f524d8e03d8311e2807a080027ef73ec.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:43:28
  • Multiple Updates
2013-04-08 21:18:33
  • First insertion