Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | bogofilter vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | USN-240-1 | First vendor Publication | 2006-01-11 |
| Vendor | Ubuntu | Last vendor Modification | 2006-01-11 |
| 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
| A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) The following packages are affected: bogofilter The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 0.95.2-1ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: A buffer overflow was found in bogofilter's character set conversion handling. Certain invalid UTF-8 character sequences caused an invalid memory access. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash bogofilter or possibly even execute arbitrary code with bogofilter's privileges. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-240-1 |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Os | 5 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: bogofilter File : nvt/freebsd_bogofilter1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 22278 | Bogofilter bogofilter/bogolexer Character Set Conversion Overflow DoS |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2006-05-13 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_92140bc97bde11da8ec40002b3b60e4c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2006-01-21 | Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : ubuntu_USN-240-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 12:03:15 |
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