Name | CVE-2023-42116 |
Description | Exim SMTP Challenge Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability |
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-3599-1, DSA-5512-1, ELA-976-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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exim4 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.84.2-2+deb8u11 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.89-2+deb9u8 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.89-2+deb9u11 | fixed |
| buster | 4.92-8+deb10u6 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 4.92-8+deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.94.2-7+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.96-15+deb12u4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.97-8 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-1470/
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3000
https://git.exim.org/exim.git/log/refs/heads/exim-4.96%20security/exim.git/commit/936e342d560e218c2aee5cb2295be925c27c2106
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/29/5
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/01/4
https://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2023-zdi.txt