CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0743

7.5 HIGH Published 2003-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-10-20
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

Heap-based buffer overflow in smtp_in.c for Exim 3 (exim3) before 3.36 and Exim 4 (exim4) before 4.21 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid (1) HELO or (2) EHLO argument with a large number of spaces followed by a NULL character and a newline, which is not properly trimmed before the "(no argument given)" string is appended to the buffer.

Affected configurations

• university of cambridge exim 3.0 • university of cambridge exim 3.3 • university of cambridge exim 3.3.1 • university of cambridge exim 3.3.2 • university of cambridge exim 3.11 • university of cambridge exim 3.12 • university of cambridge exim 3.13 • university of cambridge exim 3.14 • university of cambridge exim 3.15 • university of cambridge exim 3.16 • university of cambridge exim 3.17 • university of cambridge exim 3.18 • university of cambridge exim 3.19 • university of cambridge exim 3.20 • university of cambridge exim 3.21 • university of cambridge exim 3.22 • university of cambridge exim 3.30 • university of cambridge exim 3.31 • university of cambridge exim 3.32 • university of cambridge exim 3.33 • university of cambridge exim 3.34 • university of cambridge exim 3.35 • university of cambridge exim 3.36 • university of cambridge exim 4.10 • university of cambridge exim 4.20

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