Gentoo: GLSA-200501-23 High: Exim Buffer Overflow Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Exim: Two buffer overflows Date: January 12, 2005 Bugs: #76893 ID: 200501-23

Synopsis ======= Buffer overflow vulnerabilities, which could lead to arbitrary code execution, have been found in the handling of IPv6 addresses as well as in the SPA authentication mechanism in Exim.
Background ========= Exim is an highly configurable message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-mta/exim < 4.43-r2 >= 4.43-r2
========== Buffer overflows have been found in the host_aton() function (CAN-200...