CVE-2001-0690

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Format string vulnerability in exim (3.22-10 in Red Hat, 3.12 in Debian and 3.16 in Conectiva) in batched SMTP mode allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via format strings in SMTP mail headers.

Format string vulnerability in exim (3.22-10 in Red Hat, 3.12 in Debian and 3.16 in Conectiva) in batched SMTP mode allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via format strings in SMTP mail headers.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-09-20 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Conectiva Linux

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

4.0

Red Hat Linux

References

20010606 lil' exim format bug

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

CLA-2001:402

DSA-058

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2001:078

Patch, Vendor Advisory

2828

exim-syntax-format-string(6671)

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