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Mageia alert MGASA-2012-0363 (bogofilter)

From:  Mageia Updates <buildsystem-daemon@mageia.org>
To:  updates-announce@ml.mageia.org
Subject:  [updates-announce] MGASA-2012-0363: bogofilter-1.2.2-2.2.mga2 (2/core)
Date:  Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:19:59 +0100
Message-ID:  <20121220221959.GA12319@valstar.mageia.org>
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MGASA-2012-0363 Date: December 20th, 2012 Affected releases: 2 Description: Updated bogofilter package fixes security vulnerability: In bogofilter before 1.2.3, bogofilter's/bogolexer's base64 could overwrite heap memory in the character set conversion in certain pathological cases of invalid base64 code that decodes to incomplete multibyte characters (CVE-2012-5468). Updated Packages: bogofilter-1.2.2-2.2.mga2 References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5468 http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-... http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8376 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-...


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