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bogofilter "quoted-printable decoder" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13035
Release Date: 2004-11-01
Last Update: 2004-11-09
Popularity: 7,196 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:bogofilter 0.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in bogofilter, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the "quoted-printable decoder" when handling linefeeds in encoded words. This can be exploited to cause bogofilter to crash by sending a malicious mail with a specially crafted header.

The vulnerability has been reported in:
* bogofilter (stable) 0.92.6, 0.92.4, 0.92.0, 0.17.5
* bogofilter (current) 0.17.4 through 0.92.7

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