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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.12.2006.240.1 |
Category: | Ubuntu Local Security Checks |
Title: | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-240-1) |
Summary: | The remote host is missing an update for the 'bogofilter' package(s) announced via the USN-240-1 advisory. |
Description: | Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'bogofilter' package(s) announced via the USN-240-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: 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. Affected Software/OS: 'bogofilter' package(s) on Ubuntu 5.10. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-4591 BugTraq ID: 16171 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16171 http://secunia.com/advisories/18352 http://secunia.com/advisories/18427 http://secunia.com/advisories/18717 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:003 (Google Search) http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/240-1/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0100 XForce ISS Database: bogofilter-unicode-bo(24118) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24118 |
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