CVE-2010-2494 describes multiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder of bogofilter and bogolexer, affecting versions prior to 1.2.2. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service through heap memory corruption and application crashes by sending specially crafted email messages containing invalid base64 data. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bogofilter:bogofilter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bogofilter:bogofilter:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bogofilter:bogofilter:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bogofilter:bogofilter:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bogofilter:bogofilter:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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