CVE-2012-5468: Bogofilter Project Bogofilter

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in iconvert.c in the bogolexer component in Bogofilter before 1.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an email containing a base64 string that is decoded to incomplete multibyte characters.

Affected products

• Bogofilter Project Bogofilter: up to and including 1.2.2; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.1.0 only; …

Published 2012-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.