Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-37451 - Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Exim before 4.96 has an invalid free in pam_converse in auths/call_pam.c because store_free is not used after store_malloc.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/
- https://github.com/ivd38/exim_invalid_free
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/compare/exim-4.95...exim-4.96
- https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20220625.141825.d6de6074.en.html
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/08/06/1
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/EximSecurity
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/762.html
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/commit/51be321b27825c01829dffd90f11bfff256f7e42
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LETR5CVDPFOFQHXCJP6NFLG52JZHQYDY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XSWDF4QEXD4TDWQLYQOWCHBJKTDQR4Z7/