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CVE-2026-40684
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-04-30T22:16:25.477 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:45:34.197

Summary

In Exim before 4.99.2, on systems using musl libc (not glibc), an attacker can crash the connection instance when malformed DNS data is present in PTR records. This is caused by a dn_expand oddity in octal printing.

Affected products

exim — exim

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References

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