PT-2014-4994 · Exim+2 · Exim+2

Patrick William · Published 2014-09-04 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-2972

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 4.83

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted lookup value. This is due to the expansion of mathematical comparisons twice in the expand.c file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.83, update to version 4.83 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the lookup value to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2322

CVE-2014-2972

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10017-1

USN-2933-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Exim

Ubuntu

References · 38

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/unix/local/exim_perl_startup.rb · Exploit
• https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140722.152452.d6c019e8.en.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1531 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2972 · Vendor Advisory
• 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/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20140722.145949.42c043f5.en.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2972 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2972 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2933-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2972 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2972 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1531 · Security Note