CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-4592

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via words longer than the input buffer used by flex.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely crash the system or potentially gain control of the application, posing a serious risk to system availability and integrity.

Recommendation

Immediately update bogofilter to a version later than 0.96.2 that includes a fix for the buffer overflow vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS