Bug 1457748 (CVE-2017-1000369) - CVE-2017-1000369 Exim: Privilege escalation via multiple memory leaks
Summary: CVE-2017-1000369 Exim: Privilege escalation via multiple memory leaks
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-1000369
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1463539 1463540 1463541
Blocks: 1449010
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-01 08:55 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:13:56 UTC
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Upstream proposed patch (1.70 KB, patch)
2017-06-01 09:08 UTC, Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-06-01 08:55:57 UTC 
Several memory leak flaws were found in Exim. A local attacker who has access to run the exim binary could use this flaw to escalate his privilege to root.
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-06-01 09:08:11 UTC 
Created attachment 1284052 [details]
Upstream proposed patch
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-06-21 08:21:17 UTC 
Upstream commit:

https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-06-21 08:24:12 UTC 
Statement:

Exim itself is not vulnerable to privilege escalation, but this particular flaw in exim can be used by the stackguard vulnerability (https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/stackguard) to achieve privilege escalation.
Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-06-21 08:27:33 UTC 
Created exim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1463539]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1463540]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1463541]
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