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CVE-2005-4592
Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter and bogolexer 0.96.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly…
High7.5EPSS 4.6%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- bogofilter-long-word-bo(24119) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:003 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0100 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 18717 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16171 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2005-02 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 18352 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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