CVE-2012-5671

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

8.38% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 94.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

The NVD has published no score for this record

NVD CVSS vector

No NVD score to derive

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.

Red Hat severity

Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2012-10-31 16:00Z13 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 21:14Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2012-10-24

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

3ed1b05892c4b479e2029fdc28db78783615e2fc4ab6e37e6a9f1313c77b2223

• secunia.com51115http://secunia.com/advisories/51115third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20121027 CVE-2012-5671: Exim <= 4.80 DKIM heap-based buffer overflowhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/5mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• secunia.com51155http://secunia.com/advisories/51155third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• lists.exim.org[exim-announce] 20121026 Exim 4.80.1 Security Releasehttps://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20121026.080330.74b9147b.en.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-1618-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1618-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• secunia.com51098http://secunia.com/advisories/51098third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-17044http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090900.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-17085http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090963.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• secunia.com51153http://secunia.com/advisories/51153third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• osvdb.org86616http://osvdb.org/86616vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2012:1404http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00018.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• www.securityfocus.com56285http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56285vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comexim-dkimeximquerydnstxt-bo(79615)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79615vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-16899http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091664.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• www.debian.orgDSA-2566http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2566vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN