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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.
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
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.10 karmic | bogofilter-bdb – 1.2.0-3ubuntu1.1 | ||
| bogofilter-sqlite – 1.2.0-3ubuntu1.1 | |||
| 9.04 jaunty | bogofilter-bdb – 1.1.7-1ubuntu1.1 | ||
| bogofilter-sqlite – 1.1.7-1ubuntu1.1 | |||
| 8.04 hardy | bogofilter-bdb – 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1 | ||
| bogofilter-sqlite – 1.1.5-2ubuntu5.1 | |||
| 10.04 lucid | bogofilter-bdb – 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1 | ||
| bogofilter-sqlite – 1.2.1-0ubuntu1.1 | |||
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