Out-of-bounds Read Affecting exim/exim package, versions [,4.94.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXIMEXIM-2364574
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 May 2020

CVE-2020-12783  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade exim/exim to version 4.94.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. Exim through 4.93 has an out-of-bounds read in the SPA authenticator that could result in SPA/NTLM authentication bypass in auths/spa.c and auths/auth-spa.c.

CVSS Scores

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