1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-240-1

USN-240-1: bogofilter vulnerability

Publication date

12 January 2006

Overview

bogofilter vulnerability

Releases

Details

A buffer overflow was found in bogofilter’s character set conversion
handling. Certain invalid UTF-8 character sequences caused an invalid
memory access. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote attacker
could exploit this to crash bogofilter or possibly even execute
arbitrary code with bogofilter’s privileges.

A buffer overflow was found in bogofilter’s character set conversion
handling. Certain invalid UTF-8 character sequences caused an invalid
memory access. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote attacker
could exploit this to crash bogofilter or possibly even execute
arbitrary code with bogofilter’s privileges.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
5.10 breezy bogofilter – 

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