Ubuntu Security Notice USN-980-1
31st August, 2010
bogofilter vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 9.10
- Ubuntu 9.04
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Software description
- 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 version:
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
- bogofilter-bdb 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
- bogofilter-sqlite 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1
- 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 LTS:
- bogofilter-bdb 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1
- bogofilter-sqlite 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.