CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-0743
7.5 HIGH
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- 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
References
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000735 distro.conectiva.com.br
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106252015820395&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=106264740820334&w=2 marc.info
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/exim/exim_3.36-13/changelog packages.debian.org
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.34-10/changelog packages.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-376 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-announce/2003q3/000094.html www.exim.org
- http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20030811/057720.html www.exim.org
- http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20030811/057809.html www.exim.org
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000735 distro.conectiva.com.br
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106252015820395&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=106264740820334&w=2 marc.info
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/exim/exim_3.36-13/changelog packages.debian.org
- http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.34-10/changelog packages.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-376 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-announce/2003q3/000094.html www.exim.org
- http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20030811/057720.html www.exim.org
- http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20030811/057809.html www.exim.org