CVE catalog
CVE-2012-5468
bogofilter: CVE-2012-5468
- Severity
- Medium
- Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 6.26% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | bogofilter | sid | 1.2.5-1 | fixed |
| Debian | bogofilter | forky | 1.2.5-1 | fixed |
| Debian | bogofilter | trixie | 1.2.5-1 | fixed |
| Debian | bogofilter | bookworm | 1.2.5-1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | bogofilter | source | sid | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [695139] |
| Debian | bogofilter | source | forky | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [695139] |
| Debian | bogofilter | source | trixie | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [695139] |
| Debian | bogofilter | source | bookworm | 1.2.2+dfsg1-2 | not yet assigned | Not reported | [695139] |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [bogofilter]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
1.2.5-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
- [bogofilter-bdb]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
1.2.5-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
- [bogofilter-common]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
1.2.5-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
- [bogofilter-sqlite]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
1.2.5-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
- [bogofilter-tokyocabinet]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b2· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
1.2.5-1+b2· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · bookworm; dsa · bogofilter · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [bogofilter]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b4· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
1.2.5-1+b4· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
- [bogofilter-bdb]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b4· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
1.2.5-1+b4· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
- [bogofilter-common]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b4· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
1.2.5-1+b4· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
- [bogofilter-sqlite]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b4· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
1.2.5-1+b4· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
- [bogofilter-tokyocabinet]Fixed
Source package: [bogofilter]
Details (2)
1.2.5-1+b4· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
1.2.5-1+b4· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1.2.2+dfsg1-2dsa · bogofilter · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/opensuse-su-2024_10502-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5468]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-2585-1]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5468]
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