GSD-2019-16928

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
Details
Exim 4.92 through 4.92.2 allows remote code execution, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-15846. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in string_vformat in string.c involving a long EHLO command.
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CVE-2019-16928
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