Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package exim  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-EXIM-2974842
  • published5 Aug 2022
  • disclosed6 May 2021

Introduced: 6 May 2021

CVE-2020-28013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Amazon-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Amazon-Linux:2018.03.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exim package and not the exim package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.('" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy.