CVE-2020-28013

Name
CVE-2020-28013
Description
Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.('" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28013-PFPSN.txt

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* exim >= 4.00: < 4.94.2:
cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* exim >= 4.00 < 4.94.2

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
exim 3.13-community 4.94.2-r0 Jesse Young <jlyo@jlyo.org> fixed
exim 3.14-community 4.94.2-r0 Jesse Young <jlyo@jlyo.org> fixed