Bug 2241531 (CVE-2023-42117)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-42117 Exim: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Nick Tait <ntait> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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The vulnerability was found in Exim within the smtp service, which listens on TCP port 25 by default. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a memory corruption condition. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2241532, 2241533 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 2241518 | ||
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Description
Nick Tait
2023-09-30 17:52:32 UTC
Created exim tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 2241533] Affects: fedora-all [bug 2241532] |