CVE-2012-5468

high
Published 2012-12-18 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5468

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/51521

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/51334

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.2.2+dfsg1-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.2.2+dfsg1-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.2.2+dfsg1-2
debian debiansidfixed1.2.2+dfsg1-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.2.2+dfsg1-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
bogofilter_projectbogofilter{"endIncluding":"1.2.2"}
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.0.0
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.0.1
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.0.2
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.0.3
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.0
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.1
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.2
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.3
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.4
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.5
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.6
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.1.7
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.2.0
bogofilter_projectbogofilter1.2.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.