USN-980-1: bogofilter vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• bogofilter -

Details

Julius Plenz discovered that bogofilter incorrectly handled certain
malformed encodings. By sending a specially crafted email, a remote
attacker could exploit this and cause bogofilter to crash, resulting in a
denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• bogofilter-bdb - 1.2.0-3ubuntu1.1
• bogofilter-sqlite - 1.2.0-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• bogofilter-bdb - 1.1.7-1ubuntu1.1
• bogofilter-sqlite - 1.1.7-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• bogofilter-bdb - 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1
• bogofilter-sqlite - 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• bogofilter-bdb - 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
• bogofilter-sqlite - 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-2494