CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-35679
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
smtpd/table.c in OpenSMTPD before 6.8.0p1 lacks a certain regfree, which might allow attackers to trigger a "very significant" memory leak via messages to an instance that performs many regex lookups.
Affected configurations
• opensmtpd opensmtpd (< 6.8.0)
• opensmtpd opensmtpd 6.8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/79a034b4aed29e965f45a13409268290c9910043 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5LKTFBQCHGMVPR4IZWHQIYAPM5J3LN3J/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TYAYXRV2DM5K4RU7RHCDZSA2UF6VCTRC/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://poolp.org/posts/2020-12-24/december-2020-opensmtpd-6.8.0p1-released-fixed-several-bugs-proposed-several-diffs-book-is-on-github/ Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40opensmtpd.org/msg05188.html www.mail-archive.com
- https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/79a034b4aed29e965f45a13409268290c9910043 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5LKTFBQCHGMVPR4IZWHQIYAPM5J3LN3J/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TYAYXRV2DM5K4RU7RHCDZSA2UF6VCTRC/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://poolp.org/posts/2020-12-24/december-2020-opensmtpd-6.8.0p1-released-fixed-several-bugs-proposed-several-diffs-book-is-on-github/ Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-12 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40opensmtpd.org/msg05188.html www.mail-archive.com