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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4591
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CVE-2005-4591

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter 0.96.2, 0.95.2, 0.94.14, 0.94.12, and other versions from 0.93.5 to 0.96.2, when using Unicode databases, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via "invalid input sequences" that lead to heap corruption when bogofilter or bogolexer converts character sets.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24118

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-240-1

SUSE
  http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA18427
  Secunia Advisory: SA18352
  Secunia Advisory: SA18717

CONFIRM
  http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-01

BID
  16171


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