Upstream information
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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 64675, 64890 SUSE Security Advisories:- SUSE-SR:2005:002, published Wednesday, Jan 26th 2005 17:00 MEST
List of released packages
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