| Name | CVE-2020-28020 |
| Description | Exim 4 before 4.92 allows Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow, in which an unauthenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code by leveraging the mishandling of continuation lines during header-length restriction. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2650-1, ELA-420-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| exim4 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.84.2-2+deb8u11 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.89-2+deb9u8 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.89-2+deb9u11 | fixed |
| buster | 4.92-8+deb10u6 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.92-8+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.94.2-7+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.96-15+deb12u4 | fixed |
| trixie | 4.97-5 | fixed |
| sid | 4.97-8 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
Fixed by: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/56ac062a3ff94fc4e1bbfc2293119c079a4e980b (exim-4.92-RC5)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/04/7