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Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) How XBOW Found an Unauthenticated RCE on Exim

Summary

XBOW recounts finding CVE-2026-45185, an unauthenticated Exim RCE: during GnuTLS TLS shutdown, a nested BDAT wrapper's ungetc() writes one byte into freed memory, corrupting allocator metadata.
CVE
CVE-2026-45185
CVSS
9.8
Published
Collected