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  Exim receive_msg Function DoS 1

Category: SMTP      

The receive_msg function in receive.c in the SMTP daemon in Exim 4.88 and 4.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and stack exhaustion) via vectors involving BDAT commands and an improper check for a '.' character signifying the end of the content, related to the bdat_getc function.

References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16944


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