CVE-2005-0021

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Exim before 4.43 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an IPv6 address with more than 8 components, as demonstrated using the -be command line option, which triggers an overflow in the host_aton function, or (2) the -bh command line option or dnsdb PTR lookup, which triggers an overflow in the dns_build_reverse function.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10347

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-025.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/132992

http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=179&type=vulnerabilities

http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050103/msg00028.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-637

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-635

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-23.xml

http://ftp6.us.freebsd.org/pub/mail/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.44

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3