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CVE-2020-35679

high

Description

smtpd/table.c in OpenSMTPD before 6.8.0p1 lacks a certain regfree, which might allow attackers to trigger a "very significant" memory leak via messages to an instance that performs many regex lookups.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-12

https://poolp.org/posts/2020-12-24/december-2020-opensmtpd-6.8.0p1-released-fixed-several-bugs-proposed-several-diffs-book-is-on-github/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TYAYXRV2DM5K4RU7RHCDZSA2UF6VCTRC/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5LKTFBQCHGMVPR4IZWHQIYAPM5J3LN3J/

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/79a034b4aed29e965f45a13409268290c9910043

https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40opensmtpd.org/msg05188.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-24

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01363