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Another Critical Exim Flaw, and How to Determine if You’re Affected

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STIX ID: report--0af10ed6-6820-54d5-88e3-645c57e86fdb

Feed Name: Censys Blog

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2019-09-30

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

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Exim released an urgent security advisory for CVE-2019-16928: a heap-based buffer overflow in the EHLO command handler affecting Exim versions up to 4.92.2. A public proof-of-concept exists that can crash Exim and the issue carries a CVSS score of 9.8; administrators are strongly advised to upgrade to Exim 4.92.3 and can use the provided Censys query to find affected servers.

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