CVE-2005-0021
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 2.6%
from disclosure to weapon9 days
Published on NVDJan 6
1st PoC+9d
exploitation probability
2.6%top 16% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
Multiple buffer overflows in Exim before 4.43 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an IPv6 address with more than 8 components, as demonstrated using the -be command line option, which triggers an overflow in the host_aton function, or (2) the -bh command line option or dnsdb PTR lookup, which triggers an overflow in the dns_build_reverse function.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/1009exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/756⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://ftp6.us.freebsd.org/pub/mail/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.44http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-23.xmlhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10347http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-635http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-637http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050103/msg00028.htmlhttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=179&type=vulnerabilitieshttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=183&type=vulnerabilitieshttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/132992http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-025.html