vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-6789: Security patch for exim (ALAS-2018-970)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 8, 2018
Added
Mar 9, 2018
Modified
Oct 21, 2022

Description

An issue was discovered in the base64d function in the SMTP listener in Exim before 4.90.1. By sending a handcrafted message, a buffer overflow may happen. This can be used to execute code remotely.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-exim
Title
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