Exim Off-by-one RCE: Exploiting CVE-2018-6789 with Fully Mitigations Bypassing | DEVCORE

Meh, 2018-03-06

Link: https://devco.re/blog/2018/03/06/exim-off-by-one-RCE-exploiting-CVE-2018-6789-en/

Overview

We reported an overflow vulnerability in the base64 decode function of Exim on 5 February, 2018, identified as CVE-2018-6789. This bug exists since the first commit of exim, hence ALL versions are affected. According to our research, it can be leveraged to gain Pre-auth Remote Code Execution and at least 400k servers are at risk. Patched version 4.90.1 is already released and we suggest to upgrade exim immediately.

Affected

  • All Exim versions below 4.90.1

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