| From: |
| Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com> |
| To: |
| ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com |
| Subject: |
| [USN-240-1] bogofilter vulnerability |
| Date: |
| Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:05:47 +0100 |
| Cc: |
| full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@securityfocus.com |
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-240-1 January 11, 2006
bogofilter vulnerability
CVE-2005-4591
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
The following packages are affected:
bogofilter
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 0.95.2-1ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
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.
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 10848 a3a01223665479ed500aee9b64d9669a
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 638 bfedbfb65a22f9a482bfa1356a7bd761
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 866258 bdca7acd8cccff1976ab2ceab075830a
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 291350 8173d4c3d9c06420655d6b50c43c5b44
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 136588 f9ce89c4857c0d764100a72e22620a28
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 942 c4583a7d5ed114d1b23bdda9dff0b7db
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 237316 62e0348f1907d35d2a990a2c69543fb6
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 136590 acbfe94471e877359dc0e910d9be52eb
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 944 58e0b7482f9bc1a885940bfbf5d4c2ff
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 272064 05edb162837021bbcde1d6a3c7b5f1b4
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 136574 404fc07951bb7e614a55f15f6be9460c
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bogofilter/...
Size/MD5: 946 a4fefa7122015cad56364bb27e29baeb
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