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CVE-2017-1000369

MEDIUM

4

CVSS Score

Published: June 19, 2017 at 04:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:59 AM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxExim

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Severity

MEDIUM4

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.5%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Debian Linux · Debiandrupal

95%

95%

v ≤ 4.87.14.88 4.88 rc1 4.88 rc2 4.88 rc3 4.88 rc4 4.88 rc5 4.88 rc6 4.89 4.89 rc1 4.89 rc2 4.89 rc3 4.89 rc4 4.89 rc5 4.89 rc6 4.89 rc7

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (7)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3888

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99252

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038779

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000369

x_refsource_MISCMitigationThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-19

x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt

CVSS

4MEDIUM[email protected]

Attack Vector: LOCAL
Complexity: LOW
Privileges: NONE
User Interaction: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: LOW
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

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