CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2972
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
expand.c in Exim before 4.83 expands mathematical comparisons twice, which allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted lookup value.
Affected configurations
• exim exim (<= 4.82.1)
• exim exim 4.00
• exim exim 4.01
• exim exim 4.02
• exim exim 4.03
• exim exim 4.04
• exim exim 4.05
• exim exim 4.10
• exim exim 4.11
• exim exim 4.12
• exim exim 4.14
• exim exim 4.20
• exim exim 4.21
• exim exim 4.22
• exim exim 4.23
• exim exim 4.24
• exim exim 4.30
• exim exim 4.31
• exim exim 4.32
• exim exim 4.33
• exim exim 4.34
• exim exim 4.40
• exim exim 4.41
• exim exim 4.42
• exim exim 4.43
• exim exim 4.44
• exim exim 4.50
• exim exim 4.51
• exim exim 4.52
• exim exim 4.53
• exim exim 4.54
• exim exim 4.60
• exim exim 4.61
• exim exim 4.62
• exim exim 4.63
• exim exim 4.64
• exim exim 4.65
• exim exim 4.66
• exim exim 4.67
• exim exim 4.68
• exim exim 4.69
• exim exim 4.70
• exim exim 4.71
• exim exim 4.72
• exim exim 4.73
• exim exim 4.74
• exim exim 4.75
• exim exim 4.76
• exim exim 4.77
• exim exim 4.80
• exim exim 4.80.1
• exim exim 4.82
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff/7685ce68148a083d7759e78d01aa5198fc099c44 git.exim.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136251.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136264.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2933-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122552 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140722.145949.42c043f5.en.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140722.152452.d6c019e8.en.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-12 security.gentoo.org
- http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff/7685ce68148a083d7759e78d01aa5198fc099c44 git.exim.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136251.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136264.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2933-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1122552 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140722.145949.42c043f5.en.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140722.152452.d6c019e8.en.html Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-12 security.gentoo.org