CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000369
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-404
Description
Exim supports the use of multiple "-p" command line arguments which are malloc()'ed and never free()'ed, used in conjunction with other issues allows attackers to cause arbitrary code execution. This affects exim version 4.89 and earlier. Please note that at this time upstream has released a patch (commit 65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21), but it is not known if a new point release is available that addresses this issue at this time.
Affected configurations
• exim exim (<= 4.87.1)
• exim exim 4.88
• exim exim 4.89
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3888 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99252 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038779 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000369 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21 Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-19 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3888 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99252 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038779 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000369 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21 Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-19 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt Third Party Advisory