Ubuntu 16.04 ESM Exim vulnerabilities (USN-4934-2) advisory describes multiple critical security issues with Exim 4 before version 4.94.2, potentially allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code, escalate privileges, and overwrite critical root-owned files
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4934-2) | 26 Aug 202200:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-2650-1) | 6 May 202100:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Fedora: Security Advisory for exim (FEDORA-2021-848a196b2d) | 7 May 202100:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Exim < 4.94.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (21Nails) | 5 May 202100:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4912-1) | 5 May 202100:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4934-1) | 5 May 202100:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | openSUSE: Security Advisory for exim (openSUSE-SU-2021:0677-1) | 8 May 202100:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Exim vulnerabilities | 6 May 202100:00 | – | ubuntu |
![]() | Exim vulnerabilities | 4 May 202100:00 | – | ubuntu |
![]() | exim4 vulnerabilities | 6 May 202111:23 | – | osv |
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# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
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the USN-4934-2 advisory.
USN-4934-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Exim. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu
14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. CVE-2020-28026 only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
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if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 16.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);
var ubuntu_pro_detected = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/Pro/Services/esm-apps');
ubuntu_pro_detected = !empty_or_null(ubuntu_pro_detected);
var pro_caveat_needed = FALSE;
var pkgs = [
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'exim4', 'pkgver': '4.86.2-2ubuntu2.6+esm1', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'exim4-base', 'pkgver': '4.86.2-2ubuntu2.6+esm1', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'exim4-config', 'pkgver': '4.86.2-2ubuntu2.6+esm1', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'exim4-daemon-heavy', 'pkgver': '4.86.2-2ubuntu2.6+esm1', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE},
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{'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'eximon4', 'pkgver': '4.86.2-2ubuntu2.6+esm1', 'ubuntu_pro': TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
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var osver = NULL;
var pkgname = NULL;
var pkgver = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
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if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
var pro_required = NULL;
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flag++;
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}
}
}
if (flag)
{
var extra = '';
if (pro_caveat_needed) {
extra += 'NOTE: This vulnerability check contains fixes that apply to packages only \n';
extra += 'available in Ubuntu ESM repositories. Access to these package security updates \n';
extra += 'require an Ubuntu Pro subscription.\n\n';
}
extra += ubuntu_report_get();
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : extra
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'exim4 / exim4-base / exim4-config / exim4-daemon-heavy / etc');
}
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