PT-2014-4982 · Exim+1 · Exim+1

Published 2014-09-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-2957

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Exim versions prior to 4.82.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the From header in an email, which is passed to the expand string function. This occurs when the EXPERIMENTAL DMARC feature is enabled.

Recommendations For Exim versions prior to 4.82.1, update to version 4.82.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the EXPERIMENTAL DMARC feature until a patch is available.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2322

CVE-2014-2957

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10017-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Exim

References · 28

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2957 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2957 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10017-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2322 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140528.122536.a31d60a4.en.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2972 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2957 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0017 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1407 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/04/7 · Note