High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 24, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-35679
CVE-2020-35679
Description
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.
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Affected products
3- OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPDdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- github.com/openbsd/src/commit/79a034b4aed29e965f45a13409268290c9910043nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- poolp.org/posts/2020-12-24/december-2020-opensmtpd-6.8.0p1-released-fixed-several-bugs-proposed-several-diffs-book-is-on-github/nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-12nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5LKTFBQCHGMVPR4IZWHQIYAPM5J3LN3J/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TYAYXRV2DM5K4RU7RHCDZSA2UF6VCTRC/nvd
- www.mail-archive.com/misc%40opensmtpd.org/msg05188.htmlnvd
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