| Secunia ID |
SA51625
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| CVE-ID |
CVE-2012-5468
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| Release Date |
18 Dec 2012
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| Criticality |
Moderately Critical
Typically used for remotely exploitable Denial of Service vulnerabilities against services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP, and for vulnerabilities that allow system compromises but require user interaction.
This rating is also used for vulnerabilities allowing system compromise on LANs in services like SMB, RPC, NFS, LPD and similar services that are not intended for use over the Internet.
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| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch
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| Where |
From remote
"From remote" describes other vulnerabilities where the attack vector doesn't require access to the system or a local network.
This category covers services that are acceptable to expose to the Internet (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP). It also covers client applications used on the Internet and certain vulnerabilities where it is reasonable to assume that a security conscious user can be tricked into performing certain actions.
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| Impact |
DoS (Denial of Service)
This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.
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| Description |
Ubuntu has issued an update for bogofilter. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). For more information: SA51334
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| Solution |
Apply updated packages. -- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS -- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bogofilter/1.2.1-0ubuntu1.2
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| Original Advisory |
USN-1667-1: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1667-1/
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