CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0690

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-09-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-09-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Format string vulnerability in exim (3.22-10 in Red Hat, 3.12 in Debian and 3.16 in Conectiva) in batched SMTP mode allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via format strings in SMTP mail headers.

Affected configurations

• university of cambridge exim (<= 3.22) • conectiva linux • debian debian linux 4.0 • redhat linux

References