Ubuntu Security Notice USN-240-1
11th January, 2006
bogofilter vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.10
Details
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 privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.10:
- bogofilter
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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