Exim: Privilege escalation via multiple memory leaks
Published Jun 19, 2017
4.0
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.52%
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 products
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Configuration 1
- ≤ 4.87.1
- 4.88
- 4.88
- 4.88
- 4.88
- 4.88
- 4.88
- 4.88
- 4.89
- 4.89
- 4.89
- 4.89
- 4.89
- 4.89
- 4.89
- 4.89
Configuration 2
- 8.0
- 9.0
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
exim
Will not fix
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | exim | Will not fix | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
Exim itself is not vulnerable to privilege escalation, but this particular flaw in exim can be used by the stackguard vulnerability (https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/stackguard) to achieve privilege escalation.
References (11)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3888 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99252 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038779 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000369 x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457748 Issue Tracking
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-1528 Advisory
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21 x_refsource_MISCMitigationThird Party Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000369
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-19 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000369
- https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3888 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99252 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038779 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000369 | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457748 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-1528 | Advisory | |
| https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21 | x_refsource_MISCMitigationThird Party Advisory | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000369 | ||
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-19 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory | |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000369 | ||
| https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt | x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory |
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