In Exim before 4.99.2, when the SPA authentication driver is used with an adversarial SPA resource, there can be an out-of-bounds write that crashes the connection instance, or erroneous data processing that divulges data from uninitialized heap memory.
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| Description | In Exim before 4.99.2, when the SPA authentication driver is used with an adversarial SPA resource, there can be an out-of-bounds write that crashes the connection instance, or erroneous data processing that divulges data from uninitialized heap memory. | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-909 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-05-01T01:20:38.281Z
Reserved: 2026-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2026-40687
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-30T22:16:25.923
Modified: 2026-05-01T02:16:04.223
Link: CVE-2026-40687
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