7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2003-0743

Published: 20/10/2003 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in smtp_in.c for Exim 3 (exim3) prior to 3.36 and Exim 4 (exim4) prior to 4.21 may allow remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via an invalid (1) HELO or (2) EHLO argument with a large number of spaces followed by a NULL character and a newline, which is not properly trimmed before the "(no argument given)" string is appended to the buffer.

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Vendor Advisories

A buffer overflow exists in exim, which is the standard mail transport agent in Debian By supplying a specially crafted HELO or EHLO command, an attacker could cause a constant string to be written past the end of a buffer allocated on the heap This vulnerability is not believed at this time to be exploitable to execute arbitrary code For the st ...