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CVE-2010-2494
Multiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder in base64.c in (1) bogofilter and (2) bogolexer in bogofilter before 1.2.2 allow remote…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder in base64.c in (1) bogofilter and (2) bogolexer in bogofilter before 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via an e-mail message with invalid base64 data that begins with an = (equals) character.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- FEDORA-2010-13139 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100706 REPOST: CVE request for bogofilter (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 40427 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/security/bogofilter-SA-2010-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 41239 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/doc/bogofilter-SA-2010-01?revision=6909&pathrev=6909 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 66002 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1650 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1648 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100706 Re: Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0166 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://bogofilter.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bogofilter/trunk/bogofilter/src/base64.c?view=patch&r1=6906&r2=6903 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2233 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 41339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611551 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2010-13154 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100705 Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-980-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20100705 Re: Request CVE ID for bogofilter base64 decoder (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-2498 (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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