Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting exim/exim package, versions [4.00,4.94.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXIMEXIM-2364587
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 May 2021

CVE-2020-28009  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade exim/exim to version 4.94.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow because get_stdinput allows unbounded reads that are accompanied by unbounded increases in a certain size variable. NOTE: exploitation may be impractical because of the execution time needed to overflow (multiple days).

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