USN-1667-1: bogofilter vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• bogofilter - a fast Bayesian spam filter

Details

Julius Plenz discovered that bogofilter incorrectly handled certain
invalid base64 code. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote
attacker could exploit this and cause bogofilter to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.04

• bogofilter-bdb - 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
• bogofilter-sqlite - 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2012-5468