CVE-2022-3559 (GCVE-0-2022-3559)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-17 00:00
Modified
2025-04-15 13:27
Severity ?
4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-119 - Memory Corruption -> CWE-416 Use After Free
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Exim and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Regex Handler. The manipulation leads to use after free. The name of the patch is 4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211073 was assigned to this vulnerability.
References
cna@vuldb.com https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2915 Patch, Vendor Advisory
cna@vuldb.com https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2 Patch, Vendor Advisory
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EIH4W5R7SHTUEQFWWKB4TUO5YFZX64KV/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMQ6OCKPNPBPSD37YR4FOWV2R54M2UEP/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cna@vuldb.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFHLZVHNNO2GWYP5EA4TZQZ5O4GVPARR/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cna@vuldb.com https://vuldb.com/?id.211073 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2915 Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2 Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EIH4W5R7SHTUEQFWWKB4TUO5YFZX64KV/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMQ6OCKPNPBPSD37YR4FOWV2R54M2UEP/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFHLZVHNNO2GWYP5EA4TZQZ5O4GVPARR/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://vuldb.com/?id.211073 Third Party Advisory
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