CVE-2020-28013 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2020-28013 at MITRE

Description

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.('" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Local
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1185631 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2021:0677-1, published Fri May 7 15:38:31 2021
openSUSE-SU-2021:0753-1, published Thu May 20 15:39:10 2021
openSUSE-SU-2021:0754-1, published Thu May 20 15:39:10 2021

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	`exim >= 4.94.2-bp151.2.4.1` `eximon >= 4.94.2-bp151.2.4.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-bp151.2.4.1` `libspf2-2 >= 1.2.10-bp151.4.1` `libspf2-devel >= 1.2.10-bp151.4.1` `libspf2-tools >= 1.2.10-bp151.4.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-753
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2	`exim >= 4.94.2-bp152.6.4.1` `eximon >= 4.94.2-bp152.6.4.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-bp152.6.4.1` `libspf2-2 >= 1.2.10-bp152.5.1` `libspf2-devel >= 1.2.10-bp152.5.1` `libspf2-tools >= 1.2.10-bp152.5.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-754
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`exim >= 4.94.2-lp152.8.3.1` `eximon >= 4.94.2-lp152.8.3.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-lp152.8.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-677
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`exim >= 4.94.2-4.2` `eximon >= 4.94.2-4.2` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-4.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10746

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed May 5 08:38:42 2021
CVE page last modified: Sun Jun 16 01:17:44 2024