CVE-2025-67896 (GCVE-0-2025-67896)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-14 04:00
Modified
2025-12-15 21:27
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
Exim before 4.99.1 allows remote heap corruption that will be further described on 2025-12-18.
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Vendor Product Version
Exim Exim Version: 4.99   < 4.99.1
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