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CVE-2010-4344

critical · 9.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2022-03-25Remediation due 2022-04-15

Heap-based buffer overflow in the string_vformat function in string.c in Exim before 4.70 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SMTP session that includes two MAIL commands in conjunction with a large message containing crafted headers, leading to improper rejection logging.

9.8
CVSS
71.7%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2010-12-14
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
eximexim< 4.70
opensuseopensuse11.1
opensuseopensuse11.2
opensuseopensuse11.3
debiandebian_linux5.0
canonicalubuntu_linux6.06
canonicalubuntu_linux8.04
canonicalubuntu_linux9.10

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References

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