CVE-2005-0021

EPSS 2.8%

exim-tls - buffer overflow

Published: 5/2/2005Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Exim before 4.43 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an IPv6 address with more than 8 components, as demonstrated using the -be command line option, which triggers an overflow in the host_aton function, or (2) the -bh command line option or dnsdb PTR lookup, which triggers an overflow in the dns_build_reverse function.

Affected packages (3)

References (1)