CVE-2005-4592 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-4592 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via words that are longer than the input buffer used by flex.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 142490 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2006:003, published Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:55:17 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:43 2025