fkie_cve-2019-16928
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2019-09-27 21:15
Modified
2025-02-04 20:15
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Exim 4.92 through 4.92.2 allows remote code execution, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-15846. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in string_vformat in string.c involving a long EHLO command.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/1Exploit, Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2449Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/478effbfd9c3cc5a627fc671d4bf94d13670d65fPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20190927.032457.c1044d4c.en.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EED7HM3MFIBAP5OIMJAFJ35JAJABTVSC/Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3TJW4HPYH3O5HZCWGD6NSHTEBTTAPDC/Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UY6HPRW7MR3KBQ5JFHH6OXM7YCZBJCOB/Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/60Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-47Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4141-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4536Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/1Exploit, Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/28/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2449Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/478effbfd9c3cc5a627fc671d4bf94d13670d65fPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20190927.032457.c1044d4c.en.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EED7HM3MFIBAP5OIMJAFJ35JAJABTVSC/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3TJW4HPYH3O5HZCWGD6NSHTEBTTAPDC/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UY6HPRW7MR3KBQ5JFHH6OXM7YCZBJCOB/Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/60Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-47Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4141-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4536Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
exim exim *
canonical ubuntu_linux 19.04
debian debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject fedora 29
fedoraproject fedora 30
fedoraproject fedora 31


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