CVE-2022-37452

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37452
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-37452.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-37452
Downstream
Published
2022-08-07T18:15:08.343Z
Modified
2025-11-14T13:33:53.159123Z
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 before 4.95 has a heap-based buffer overflow for the alias list in hostnamelookup in host.c when senderhostname is set.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exim/exim

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exim/exim
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
d4bc023436e4cce7c23c5f8bb5199e178b4cc743

Affected versions

Other

DEVEL_PDKIM_START
exim-4_50
exim-4_51
exim-4_52
exim-4_53
exim-4_54
exim-4_61
exim-4_62
exim-4_63
exim-4_64
exim-4_65
exim-4_66
exim-4_67
exim-4_68
exim-4_69
exim-4_70
exim-4_70_RC3
exim-4_70_RC4
exim-4_71
exim-4_72
exim-4_72_RC1
exim-4_72_RC2
exim-4_73
exim-4_73_RC0
exim-4_73_RC00
exim-4_73_RC1
exim-4_74
exim-4_74_RC1
exim-4_75
exim-4_75_RC1
exim-4_75_RC2
exim-4_75_RC3
exim-4_76
exim-4_76_RC1
exim-4_76_RC2
exim-4_77
exim-4_77_RC1
exim-4_77_RC2
exim-4_77_RC3
exim-4_77_RC4
exim-4_80
exim-4_80_RC1
exim-4_80_RC2
exim-4_80_RC3
exim-4_80_RC4
exim-4_80_RC5
exim-4_80_RC6
exim-4_80_RC7
exim-4_82
exim-4_82_1
exim-4_82_RC1
exim-4_82_RC2
exim-4_82_RC3
exim-4_82_RC4
exim-4_82_RC5
exim-4_83
exim-4_83_RC1
exim-4_83_RC2
exim-4_83_RC3
exim-4_84
exim-4_84_RC1
exim-4_84_RC2
exim-4_85
exim-4_85_RC1
exim-4_85_RC2
exim-4_85_RC3
exim-4_85_RC4
exim-4_86
exim-4_86_RC1
exim-4_86_RC2
exim-4_86_RC3
exim-4_86_RC4
exim-4_86_RC5
exim-4_87
exim-4_87_RC1
exim-4_87_RC2
exim-4_87_RC3
exim-4_87_RC4
exim-4_87_RC5
exim-4_87_RC6
exim-4_87_RC7
exim-4_88
exim-4_88_RC1
exim-4_88_RC2
exim-4_88_RC3
exim-4_88_RC4
exim-4_88_RC5
exim-4_88_RC6
exim-4_89_RC1
exim-4_89_RC3
exim-4_90
exim-4_90_RC1
exim-4_90_RC2
exim-4_90_RC3
exim-4_90_RC4
exim-4_91
exim-4_91_RC1
exim-4_91_RC2
exim-4_91_RC3
exim-4_91_RC4
exim-4_94_RC0
list_safety_merge_proposal

exim-4.*

exim-4.90devstart
exim-4.92
exim-4.92-RC1
exim-4.92-RC2
exim-4.92-RC3
exim-4.92-RC4
exim-4.92-RC5
exim-4.92-RC6
exim-4.92-jgh
exim-4.93
exim-4.93-RC0
exim-4.93-RC1
exim-4.93-RC2
exim-4.93-RC3
exim-4.93-RC4
exim-4.93-RC5
exim-4.93-RC6
exim-4.93-RC7
exim-4.94
exim-4.94-RC1
exim-4.94-RC2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "function": "host_name_lookup",
            "file": "src/src/host.c"
        },
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "28536930082922744431669009228752806909",
            "length": 5102.0
        },
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/exim/exim/commit/d4bc023436e4cce7c23c5f8bb5199e178b4cc743",
        "id": "CVE-2022-37452-017c0dcb"
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "src/src/host.c"
        },
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "184956518010150729774220526949178823271",
                "26430828063158642321714243700460813138",
                "295790719658670483012353876179055914960",
                "32747649832266724423754114956411741680",
                "129856889769950454786719956308645125805",
                "1381192537488451988005309451666684435",
                "122093718510119773049399227896149530491",
                "201977030185216179548399135292226515147"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/exim/exim/commit/d4bc023436e4cce7c23c5f8bb5199e178b4cc743",
        "id": "CVE-2022-37452-8396ebb4"
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-37452.json"