4.4
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-2024

Published: 07/06/2010 Updated: 10/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.4 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 392
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

transports/appendfile.c in Exim prior to 4.72, when MBX locking is enabled, allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary files or create arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges, via a symlink attack on a lockfile in /tmp/.

Vulnerability Trend

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exim exim 4.68

exim exim 4.61

exim exim 4.60

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exim exim 4.34

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Vendor Advisories

It was discovered that Exim contained a design flaw in the way it processed alternate configuration files An attacker that obtained privileges of the “Debian-exim” user could use an alternate configuration file to obtain root privileges (CVE-2010-4345) ...