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openSUSE 12.2: 2012:1650-1 Important: Bogofilter Heap Corruption

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2012
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial openSUSE patch addresses bogofilter memory corruption and tackles various other significant vulnerabilities
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This version upgrade of bogofilter fixed a heap corruption

in the base 64 decoding routine as well as several other

non-security issues.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-852

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 12.2 (i586 x86_64):

bogofilter-1.2.3-17.4.1

bogofilter-debuginfo-1.2.3-17.4.1

bogofilter-debugsource-1.2.3-17.4.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-2494.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2012:1650-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.2

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