Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-5468 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Bogofilter Project Bogofilter
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
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 Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2013-064.NASL description Updated bogofilter package fixes security vulnerability : In bogofilter before 1.2.3, bogofilter last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 66078 published 2013-04-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/66078 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bogofilter (MDVSA-2013:064) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:064. # The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(66078); script_version("1.6"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:55"); script_cve_id("CVE-2012-5468"); script_bugtraq_id(56804); script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2013:064"); script_xref(name:"MGASA", value:"2012-0363"); script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : bogofilter (MDVSA-2013:064)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Updated bogofilter package fixes security vulnerability : In bogofilter before 1.2.3, bogofilter's/bogolexer's base64 could overwrite heap memory in the character set conversion in certain pathological cases of invalid base64 code that decodes to incomplete multibyte characters (CVE-2012-5468)." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected bogofilter package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:bogofilter"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/04/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/04/20"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"bogofilter-1.2.2-3.1.mbs1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_hole(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-1667-1.NASL description Julius Plenz discovered that bogofilter incorrectly handled certain invalid base64 code. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote attacker could exploit this and cause bogofilter to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63287 published 2012-12-18 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63287 title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : bogofilter vulnerability (USN-1667-1) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1667-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered # trademark of Canonical, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(63287); script_version("1.9"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:28"); script_cve_id("CVE-2012-5468"); script_bugtraq_id(56804); script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1667-1"); script_name(english:"Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : bogofilter vulnerability (USN-1667-1)"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Julius Plenz discovered that bogofilter incorrectly handled certain invalid base64 code. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote attacker could exploit this and cause bogofilter to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1667-1/" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected bogofilter-bdb and / or bogofilter-sqlite packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bogofilter-bdb"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:bogofilter-sqlite"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/12/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/12/17"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/12/18"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2012-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("ubuntu.inc"); include("misc_func.inc"); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release"); if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu"); release = chomp(release); if (! preg(pattern:"^(10\.04)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 10.04", "Ubuntu " + release); if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu); flag = 0; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"bogofilter-bdb", pkgver:"1.2.1-0ubuntu1.2")) flag++; if (ubuntu_check(osver:"10.04", pkgname:"bogofilter-sqlite", pkgver:"1.2.1-0ubuntu1.2")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : ubuntu_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "bogofilter-bdb / bogofilter-sqlite"); }
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-2585.NASL description A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in bogofilter, a software package for classifying mail messages as spam or non-spam. Crafted mail messages with invalid base64 data could lead to heap corruption and, potentially, arbitrary code execution. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-12-17 plugin id 63269 published 2012-12-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63269 title Debian DSA-2585-1 : bogofilter - buffer overflow NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-19740.NASL description updated to 1.2.3 (fixes #883358, CVE-2012-5468) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-12-13 plugin id 63253 published 2012-12-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63253 title Fedora 16 : bogofilter-1.2.3-1.fc16 (2012-19740) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-19705.NASL description updated to 1.2.3 (fixes #883358, CVE-2012-5468) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2012-12-13 plugin id 63251 published 2012-12-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63251 title Fedora 17 : bogofilter-1.2.3-1.fc17 (2012-19705) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_F524D8E03D8311E2807A080027EF73EC.NASL description David Relson reports : Fix a heap corruption in base64 decoder on invalid input. Analysis and patch by Julius Plenz, [FU Berlin, Germany]. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 63144 published 2012-12-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63144 title FreeBSD : bogofilter -- heap corruption by invalid base64 input (f524d8e0-3d83-11e2-807a-080027ef73ec) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2012-19664.NASL description updated to 1.2.3 (fixes #883358, CVE-2012-5468) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-01-14 plugin id 63484 published 2013-01-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63484 title Fedora 18 : bogofilter-1.2.3-1.fc18 (2012-19664) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_BOGOFILTER-121205.NASL description A heap corruption in bogofilter last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2013-01-25 plugin id 64116 published 2013-01-25 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/64116 title SuSE 11.2 Security Update : bogofilter (SAT Patch Number 7135)
References
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2012-01
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6973
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter?view=revision&revision=6975
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51334
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51334
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51521
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51521
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2585
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:064
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/03/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56804
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883358
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80524