CVE-2022-3559 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2022-3559 at MITRE

Description

A vulnerability was found in Exim and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Regex Handler. The manipulation leads to use after free. The name of the patch is 4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211073 was assigned to this vulnerability.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	CNA (VulDB)	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Adjacent Network	Network
Attack Complexity	High	Low
Privileges Required	Low	None
User Interaction	None	None
Scope	Unchanged	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	Low	None
Integrity Impact	Low	None
Availability Impact	Low	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1204427 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2022:10168-1, published Sun Oct 30 22:57:14 2022
openSUSE-SU-2022:10191-1, published Wed Nov 9 00:43:53 2022
openSUSE-SU-2024:0007-1, published Thu Jan 4 04:52:00 2024

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	`exim >= 4.94.2-bp153.5.1` `eximon >= 4.94.2-bp153.5.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-bp153.5.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10191
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	`exim >= 4.94.2-bp154.2.3.1` `eximon >= 4.94.2-bp154.2.3.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-bp154.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10168
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5	`exim >= 4.97.1-bp155.5.9.1` `eximon >= 4.97.1-bp155.5.9.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.97.1-bp155.5.9.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-7
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`exim >= 4.94.2-bp153.5.1` `eximon >= 4.94.2-bp153.5.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-bp153.5.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10191
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`exim >= 4.94.2-bp154.2.3.1` `eximon >= 4.94.2-bp154.2.3.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.94.2-bp154.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-10168
openSUSE Leap 15.5	`exim >= 4.97.1-bp155.5.9.1` `eximon >= 4.97.1-bp155.5.9.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.97.1-bp155.5.9.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2024-7
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`exim >= 4.96-3.1` `eximon >= 4.96-3.1` `eximstats-html >= 4.96-3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12422

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	exim	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4	exim	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP5	exim	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Oct 18 00:00:18 2022
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 17:06:52 2025