| Name | CVE-2010-2494 |
| Description | Multiple 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 588090 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| bogofilter (PTS) | buster | 1.2.4+dfsg1-13 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm, bullseye | 1.2.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| bogofilter | source | lenny | 1.1.7-1+lenny1 | | | |
| bogofilter | source | (unstable) | 1.2.1-3 | low | | 588090 |
Notes
this is "only" null write to an invalid pointer, no arbitrary location