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Unscored USN-4294-1 2 CVEs

OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities

Published Mar 2, 2020 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that OpenSMTPD mishandled certain input. A remote,
unauthenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
shell commands as any non-root user. (CVE-2020-8794)

It was discovered that OpenSMTPD did not properly handle hardlinks under
certain conditions. An unprivileged local attacker could read the first
line of any file on the filesystem. (CVE-2020-8793)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS opensmtpd 6.0.3p1-1ubuntu0.2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-8793
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-8794