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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.68226
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-980-1 (bogofilter)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to bogofilter
announced via advisory USN-980-1.

Details follow:

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.

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

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
bogofilter-bdb 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1
bogofilter-sqlite 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1

Ubuntu 9.04:
bogofilter-bdb 1.1.7-1ubuntu1.1
bogofilter-sqlite 1.1.7-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 9.10:
bogofilter-bdb 1.2.0-3ubuntu1.1
bogofilter-sqlite 1.2.0-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
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.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-980-1

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-2494
40427
http://secunia.com/advisories/40427
41239
http://secunia.com/advisories/41239
41339
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41339
66002
http://www.osvdb.org/66002
ADV-2010-2233
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2233
FEDORA-2010-13139
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046558.html
FEDORA-2010-13154
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/046590.html
SUSE-SR:2010:014
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
USN-980-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-980-1
[oss-security] 20100705 Re: Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127831760712436&w=2
[oss-security] 20100705 Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127814747231102&w=2
[oss-security] 20100706 REPOST: CVE request for bogofilter
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127840569013531&w=2
[oss-security] 20100706 Re: Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=127844323105405&w=2
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2010-01
http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-SA-2010-01?revision=6909&pathrev=6909
http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/src/base64.c?view=patch&r1=6906&r2=6903
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551
openSUSE-SU-2012:1648
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00015.html
openSUSE-SU-2012:1650
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00016.html
openSUSE-SU-2013:0166
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00021.html
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