CVE-2025-62875
Description
A denial of service flaw has been discovered in OpenSMTPD. OpenSMTPD contains the smtpctl program, which communicates with the smtpd: control daemon instance via a UNIX domain socket in /var/run/smtpd.sock. The UNIX domain socket smtpd.sock has file mode 0666 and is thus writable for all users in the system, allowing anybody to create local connections towards smtpd.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Integrity,Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart; Unexpected State
The data which were produced as a result of a function call could be in a bad state upon return. If the return value is not checked, then this bad data may be used in operations, possibly leading to a crash or other unintended behaviors.
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