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CVE-2023-42118

Vulnerability Summary

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent malicious users to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Exim libspf2. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of SPF macros. When parsing SPF macros, the process does not properly validate user-supplied data, which can result in an integer underflow before writing to memory. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the service account.

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Debian Bug report logs - #1053870 CVE-2023-42118: integer underflow in libspf2 resulting in RCE Package: libspf2-2; Maintainer for libspf2-2 is Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debianorg>; Source for libspf2-2 is src:libspf2 (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Bert Van de Poel <bert@unix-solutionsbe> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 ...