CVE-2005-4592: Bogofilter Email Filter

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Bogofilter Email Filter: version 0.93.5 only; version 0.94.12 only; version 0.94.14 only; version 0.95.2 only; version 0.96.2 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.