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Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Initialization that can...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Initialization that can lead to recursion-based stack consumption or other consequences. This occurs because use of certain getc functions is mishandled when a client uses BDAT instead of DATA.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 6, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

6.183%
(94th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-28019

GHSA ID

GHSA-vxgq-8r56-c922

Source code

No known source code

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