CVE-2012-5468
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 6.3%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in iconvert.c in the bogolexer component in Bogofilter before 1.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an email containing a base64 string that is decoded to incomplete multibyte characters.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.3% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-5387)
- Published
- December 18, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-5387 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
- bogofilter project / bogofilter
References
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973(Patch)
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51334(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51521(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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