CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-28018

Use After Free

Published: May 06, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Use After Free in smtp_reset in certain situations that may be common for builds with OpenSSL.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Exim Exim 4.90 (including) 4.94.2 (excluding)
Exim4 Ubuntu bionic *
Exim4 Ubuntu devel *
Exim4 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Exim4 Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Exim4 Ubuntu focal *
Exim4 Ubuntu groovy *
Exim4 Ubuntu hirsute *
Exim4 Ubuntu impish *
Exim4 Ubuntu jammy *
Exim4 Ubuntu trusty *
Exim4 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References