Use After Free Affecting opensmtpd package, versions <5.7.3p1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.28% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-OPENSMTPD-1555706
  • published16 Oct 2017
  • disclosed16 Oct 2017

Introduced: 16 Oct 2017

CVE-2015-7687  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 opensmtpd to version 5.7.3p1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opensmtpd package and not the opensmtpd package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in OpenSMTPD before 5.7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors involving req_ca_vrfy_smtp and req_ca_vrfy_mta.