[3.7] exim: Privilege escalation via multiple memory leaks (CVE-2017-1000369)
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.
References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000369
Patch:
https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/65e061b76867a9ea7aeeb535341b790b90ae6c21
(from redmine: issue id 7460, created on 2017-06-29, closed on 2017-07-05)
- Relations:
- parent #7459 (closed)
- Changesets:
- Revision c36891f9 by Natanael Copa on 2017-07-04T16:01:53Z:
community/exim: security fix for CVE-2017-1000369
fixes #7460