GHSA-vfqg-p6x8-w5f4

GHSA-vfqg-p6x8-w5f4 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.('" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

8.699999809265137

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

May 24, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-vfqg-p6x8-w5f4
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-vfqg-p6x8-w5f4

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-vfqg-p6x8-w5f4/fixes/registry"

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