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USN240-1 : bogofilter vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary bogofilter vulnerability Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : These remote packages are missing security patches : - bogofilter - bogofilter-bdb - bogofilter-common Description : A buffer overflow was found in bogofilter's character set conversion handling. Certain invalid UTF-8 character sequences caused an invalid memory access. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash bogofilter or possibly even execute arbitrary code with bogofilter's rights. Solution : Upgrade to : - bogofilter-0.95.2-1ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 5.10) - bogofilter-bdb-0.95.2-1ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 5.10) - bogofilter-common-0.95.2-1ubuntu1.1 (Ubuntu 5.10) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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