CVE-2005-0021 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-0021 at MITRE

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Exim before 4.43 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an IPv6 address with more than 8 components, as demonstrated using the -be command line option, which triggers an overflow in the host_aton function, or (2) the -bh command line option or dnsdb PTR lookup, which triggers an overflow in the dns_build_reverse function.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important 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

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 64675 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 64890 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2005:002, published Wednesday, Jan 26th 2005 17:00 MEST

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:54:55 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:11:10 2023