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CVE-2020-7845 (GCVE-0-2020-7845)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-27 01:26 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:41
VLAI
Title
Jiransecurity Spamsniper Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Summary
Spamsniper 5.0 ~ 5.2.7 contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability caused by improper boundary checks when parsing MAIL FROM command. It leads remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via crafted packet.
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Jiransecurity Spamsniper Affected: 5.2.7 , ≤ 5.7.8 revision 5500 (custom)
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