CVE-2010-4344
Published 2010-12-14 · Updated 2026-06-16 · Source secalert@redhat.com
Summary
CVE-2010-4344 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in Exim Exim. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Exim has 5 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 1 of them linked to ransomware.
All 5 known-exploited Exim vulnerabilities →Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the string_vformat function in string.c in Exim before 4.70 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SMTP session that includes two MAIL commands in conjunction with a large message containing crafted headers, leading to improper rejection logging.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Exim — Exim
Name: Exim Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-03-25 · Due: 2022-04-15
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.70
- http://atmail.com/blog/2010/atmail-6204-now-available/
- http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787
- http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/24c929a27415c7cfc7126c47e4cad39acf3efa6b
- http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20101210.164935.385e04d0.en.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00003.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/10/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40019

