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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0021
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CVE-2005-0021

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-025.html

MLIST
  http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050103/msg00028.html

IDEFENSE
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=179&type=vulnerabilities
  http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=183&type=vulnerabilities

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-23.xml

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-635
  http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-637

CONFIRM
  http://ftp6.us.freebsd.org/pub/mail/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.44

CERT-VN
  132992


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