Bug 2044649 (CVE-2021-33913)

Summary: CVE-2021-33913 libspf2: heap-based buffer overflow in SPF_record_expand_data in spf_expand.c
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2022-01-24 21:47:42 UTC
libspf2 before 1.2.11 has a heap-based buffer overflow that might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code (via an unauthenticated e-mail message from anywhere on the Internet) with a crafted SPF DNS record, because of SPF_record_expand_data in spf_expand.c. The amount of overflowed data depends on the relationship between the length of an entire domain name and the length of its leftmost label. The vulnerable code may be part of the supply chain of a site's e-mail infrastructure (e.g., with additional configuration, Exim can use libspf2; the Postfix web site links to unofficial patches for use of libspf2 with Postfix; older versions of spfquery relied on libspf2) but most often is not.

https://github.com/shevek/libspf2/tree/8131fe140704eaae695e76b5cd09e39bd1dd220b
https://nathanielbennett.com/blog/libspf2-cve-jan-2022-disclosure
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00015.html

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2022-01-24 21:47:58 UTC
Created libspf2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2044651]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2044650]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-01-24 22:31:13 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.