CVE-2019-16928

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16928
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16928.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-16928
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (4)
Related
openSUSE (4)
Published
2019-09-27T21:15:10Z
Modified
2026-07-07T08:50:08Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "19.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "19.04"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "10.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "10.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "29"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "29"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "30"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "30"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "31"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "31"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "fedoraproject:fedora"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exim/exim

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exim/exim
Events
Introduced
ae63862ba6f6ee0c17ec865cc6cf0eebb3ca2389
Last Affected
2600301ba6dbac5c9d640c87007a07ee6dcea1f4
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "4.92"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "4.92.2"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

exim-4.*
exim-4.92
exim-4.92-RC6
exim-4.92-jgh
exim-4.92.1
exim-4.92.1-RC2
exim-4.92.2
exim-4.92.2-RC1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16928.json"