CVE-2010-2494

NameCVE-2010-2494
DescriptionMultiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder in base64.c in (1) bogofilter and (2) bogolexer in bogofilter before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via an e-mail message with invalid base64 data that begins with an = (equals) character.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs588090

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
bogofilter (PTS)sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye1.2.5-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
bogofiltersourcelenny1.1.7-1+lenny1
bogofiltersource(unstable)1.2.1-3low588090

Notes

this is "only" null write to an invalid pointer, no arbitrary location

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