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-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--src/src/receive.c7
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index 055b1ace8..3bb5326ce 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -191,6 +191,11 @@ PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
+PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
+ known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
+ or if local additions add to the recipient list).
+ Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
+
Exim version 4.94
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diff --git a/src/src/receive.c b/src/src/receive.c
index ec90e93cd..ba6a8d3a6 100644
--- a/src/src/receive.c
+++ b/src/src/receive.c
@@ -485,11 +485,18 @@ Returns: nothing
void
receive_add_recipient(uschar *recipient, int pno)
{
+/* XXX This is a math limit; we should consider a performance/sanity limit too. */
+const int safe_recipients_limit = INT_MAX / sizeof(recipient_item) - 1;
+
if (recipients_count >= recipients_list_max)
{
recipient_item *oldlist = recipients_list;
int oldmax = recipients_list_max;
recipients_list_max = recipients_list_max ? 2*recipients_list_max : 50;
+ if ((recipients_list_max >= safe_recipients_limit) || (recipients_list_max < 0))
+ {
+ log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC, "Too many recipients needed: %d not satisfiable", recipients_list_max);
+ }
recipients_list = store_get(recipients_list_max * sizeof(recipient_item), FALSE);
if (oldlist != NULL)
memcpy(recipients_list, oldlist, oldmax * sizeof(recipient_item));