PT-2005-1155 · Exim+1 · Exim+1

Published 2005-01-06 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2005-0022

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Exim versions prior to 4.43

Description A buffer overflow issue exists in the spa base64 to bits function, which may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code during SPA authentication. This function is originally obtained from Samba code and is called by the auth spa client function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.43, update to version 4.43 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of SPA authentication until a patch is applied.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0022

RHSA-2005:025

RHSA-2005_025

Affected Products

Exim

Red Hat

References · 16

• http://exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050103/msg00028.html · Patch
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-23.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-0022 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0022 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-0022 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0022 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ftp6.us.freebsd.org/pub/mail/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.44 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11293 · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0022.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0021.html · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110824870908614&w=2 · Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-025.html · Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-025.html · Note
• http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=183&type=vulnerabilities · Note
• http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=178&type=vulnerabilities · Note