CVE-2020-35679
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.028 · 86 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
smtpd/table.c in OpenSMTPD before 6.8.0p1 lacks a certain regfree, which might allow attackers to trigger a "very significant" memory leak via messages to an instance that performs many regex lookups.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (5)
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references (22)
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- https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/79a034b4aed29e965f45a13409268290c9910043cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5LKTFBQCHGMVPR4IZWHQIYAPM5J3LN3J/cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TYAYXRV2DM5K4RU7RHCDZSA2UF6VCTRC/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35679cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162789/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202105-12.htmlcnnvd
- https://poolp.org/posts/2020-12-24/december-2020-opensmtpd-6.8.0p1-released-fixed-several-bugs-proposed-several-diffs-book-is-on-github/cnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-12cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenSMTPD-memory-leak-via-Regex-Lookups-34441cnnvd
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