Vulnerability in Bogofilter Email Filter
CVE-2005-4592
Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.046 (91.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.046 · newest: 0.046 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bogofilter Email Filter — versions 0.93.5, 0.94.12, 0.94.14
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24119 (vdb-entry)
- lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/18717 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-02 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/18352 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)