NA

CVE-2023-42114

Published: 03/05/2024 Updated: 03/05/2024

Vulnerability Summary

Exim NTLM Challenge Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote malicious users to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Exim. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of NTLM challenge requests. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated data structure. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to disclose information in the context of the service account. Was ZDI-CAN-17433.

Vulnerability Trend

Vendor Advisories

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Exim, a mail transport agent, which could result in remote code execution if the EXTERNAL or SPA/NTLM authenticators are used For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 4942-7+deb11u1 For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in ver ...
Description<!---->An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in Exim within the handling of NTLM challenge requests The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated data structure An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to disclose information in the context ...