National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1407
Original release date:05/16/2011
Last revised:09/07/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The DKIM implementation in Exim 4.7x before 4.76 permits matching for DKIM identities to apply to lookup items, instead of only strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or access a filesystem via a crafted identity.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [exim-announce] 20110512 Exim 4.76 Release: updated impact assessment
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [exim-announce] 20110509 Exim 4.76 Release
Type: Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1135-1
External Source: BID
Name: 47836
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2236