Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2017-16943 Details

Description

The receive_msg function in receive.c in the SMTP daemon in Exim 4.88 and 4.89 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via vectors involving BDAT commands.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/25/1 CVEMailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/25/2 CVEMailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/25/3 CVEMailing List
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2199 CVEExploitIssue Tracking
https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/4090d62a4b25782129cc1643596dc2f6e8f63bde CVEPatch

see all 22 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-416Use After Free[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
exim exim
4.88 -
4.89 -

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:4.88:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:4.89:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
9.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

11 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-16943
NVD Published Date:
Nov 25, 2017
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2017-16943 Details - Not Deferred