CVE-2020-28019

Publication date 4 May 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Initialization that can lead to recursion-based stack consumption or other consequences. This occurs because use of certain getc functions is mishandled when a client uses BDAT instead of DATA.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
exim4 22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 4.94-15ubuntu1.2
21.10 impish
Fixed 4.94-15ubuntu1.2
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 4.94-15ubuntu1.2
20.10 groovy
Fixed 4.94-7ubuntu1.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.93-13ubuntu1.5
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.90.1-1ubuntu1.8
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

leosilva

trusty/xenial ESM not affected. vulnerability was introduced by: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/patch/7e3ce68e68ab9b8906a637d352993abf361554e2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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