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opensmtpd — security advisory
smtpd/table.c in OpenSMTPD before 6.8.0p1 lacks a certain regfree, which might allow attackers to trigger a "very significant" memory leak via messages to an instance that performs many regex lookups.
- Products
- opensmtpd
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.8.0p2-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-35679
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
smtpd/table.c in OpenSMTPD before 6.8.0p1 lacks a certain regfree, which might allow attackers to trigger a "very significant" memory leak via messages to an instance that performs many regex lookups.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35679
opensmtpd
Fixed versions: 6.8.0p2-1
opensmtpd
Fixed versions: 6.8.0p2-1
opensmtpd
Fixed versions: 6.8.0p2-1
Complete source record
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