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CVE-2026-40684

Exim

Description

In Exim before 4.99.2, on systems using musl libc (not glibc), an attacker can crash the connection instance when malformed DNS data is present in PTR records. This is caused by a dn_expand oddity in octal printing.

CVSS 5.9EPSS 0.362%Risk 0.61
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Published
2026-04-30 22:16:25
Affected versions
<4.99.2
Type
Core software
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H