Pardus alert 2010-99 (bogofilter)

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[Pardus-security] [PLSA 2010-99] Bogofilter: Heap Corruption 
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Mon,  2 Aug 2010 09:40:27 +0300 (EEST)
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2010-99            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2010-08-02
  Severity: 3
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in bogofilter, which can be exploited by 
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial  of  Service)  and  potentially 
compromise a vulnerable system. 


Description
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CVE-2010-2494: 

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. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    bogofilter, all before 1.2.1-16-4


Resolution
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There are update(s) for bogofilter. You can  update  them  via  Package 
Manager or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up bogofilter

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=13690
  * http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-...
  * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551

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