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CVE-2019-16928

critical · 9.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2022-03-03Remediation due 2022-03-17

Exim 4.92 through 4.92.2 allows remote code execution, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-15846. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in string_vformat in string.c involving a long EHLO command.

9.8
CVSS
41.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2019-09-27
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>= 4.92, <= 4.92.2
canonicalubuntu_linux19.04
debiandebian_linux10.0
fedoraprojectfedora29
fedoraprojectfedora30
fedoraprojectfedora31

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References

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