CVE-2017-1000369

Summary

CVECVE-2017-1000369
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-06-19 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-12-12 13:35:00 UTC
DescriptionExim 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-404

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 - All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc1 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc2 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc3 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc4 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc5 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc6 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 - All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc1 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc2 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc3 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc4 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc5 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc6 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc7 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 - All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc1 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc2 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc3 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc4 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc5 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.88 rc6 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 - All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc1 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc2 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc3 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc4 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc5 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc6 All All
Application Exim Exim 4.89 rc7 All All
Application Exim Exim All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2017-1000369 - Red Hat Customer Portal CONFIRM access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Exim Memory Leak Lets Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges in Certain Cases - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Cleanup (prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr to avoid mem leak) · Exim/exim@65e061b · GitHub MISC github.com Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3888-1 exim4 DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Exim CVE-2017-1000369 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Exim: Local privilege escalation (GLSA 201709-19) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt MISC www.qualys.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500884 Alpine Linux Security Update for exim
  • 504717 Alpine Linux Security Update for exim
  • 710427 Gentoo Linux Exim Local privilege escalation Vulnerability (GLSA 201709-19)
  • 750227 OpenSUSE Security Update for exim (openSUSE-SU-2021:0677-1)
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