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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28021

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. An authenticated remote SMTP client can insert newline characters into a spool fi...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. An authenticated remote SMTP client can insert newline characters into a spool file (which indirectly leads to remote code execution as root) via AUTH= in a MAIL FROM command.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 exim4

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.94.2-1"}]}]

Debian:13 exim4

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.94.2-1"}]}]

Debian:14 exim4

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.94.2-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org