Vulnerability CVE-2017-1000369
Published: 2017-06-19

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.

Type:

CWE-404

 (Improper Resource Shutdown or Release)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
EXIM -> EXIM 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3888
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99252
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038779
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000369
https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-19
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
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