Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16944

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-25 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:43:57
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The receive_msg function in receive.c in the SMTP daemon in Exim 4.88 and 4.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and stack exhaustion) via vectors involving BDAT commands and an improper check for a . character signifying the end of the content, related to the bdat_getc function.