CVE-2010-4344

CRITICAL9.8⚠ KEVEPSS 51.9%

exim4 - remote code execution

Published: 12/14/2010Modified: 4/28/2026Added to CISA KEV: 3/25/2022

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the string_vformat function in string.c in Exim before 4.70 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SMTP session that includes two MAIL commands in conjunction with a large message containing crafted headers, leading to improper rejection logging.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)