Bug#988086: Exim delivery process crashes on each mail with NULL-pointer

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2733

On 2021-05-05 halfdog <me at halfdog.net> wrote:
[...]
> What a weird coincidence that the 4.94-19
> seemed to crash exactly around that part of code that seemed
> to related to CVE-2020-28007.

Hello,

thank you for the very helpful bug report that made the issue easy to
reproduce.

The breakage is caused by the relevant change in -18/-19 (Pull patches
to temporarily add an option to turn taint errors into warnings.)

I have forwarded it upstream.

cu Andreas
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