Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-980-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
bogofilter vulnerability on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 9.04 ,
Ubuntu 9.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-2494 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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