CVE-2010-2494
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.4% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2498)
- Published
- July 8, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2498 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
- bogofilter / bogofilter
References
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2010-01
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-SA-2010-01?revision=6909&pathrev=6909
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/src/base64.c?view=patch&r1=6906&r2=6903(Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046558.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046590.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00021.html
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127814747231102&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127831760712436&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127840569013531&w=2(Patch)
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127844323105405&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40427(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41239
- http://www.osvdb.org/66002
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41339
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-980-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2233
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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