Exim SPA Authentication Base64 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
01/06/2005
07/25/2018
01/06/2005
07/16/2012
Description
Buffer overflow in the spa_base64_to_bits function in Exim before 4.43, as originally obtained from Samba code, may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code during SPA authentication.
Solution(s)
- exim-workaround-patch-spa-auth
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