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HistorySep 08, 2005 - 7:20 p.m.

exim security update

2005-09-0819:20:15
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7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.023 Low

EPSS

Percentile

89.6%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:358

Exim is a mail transport agent (MTA) developed at the University of
Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet.

An integer overflow flaw was found in PCRE, a Perl-compatible regular
expression library included within Exim. A local user could create a
maliciously crafted regular expression in such as way that they could gain
the privileges of the ‘exim’ user. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project assigned the name CAN-2005-2491 to this issue. These
erratum packages change Exim to use the system PCRE library instead of the
internal one.

These packages also fix a minor flaw where the Exim Monitor was incorrectly
computing free space on very large file systems.

Users should upgrade to these erratum packages and also ensure they have
updated the system PCRE library, for which erratum packages are available
seperately in RHSA-2005:761

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-September/074297.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-September/074298.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-September/074299.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-September/074300.html

Affected packages:
exim
exim-doc
exim-mon
exim-sa

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:358

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.023 Low

EPSS

Percentile

89.6%