openSUSE: Security Advisory for exim (openSUSE-SU-2016:0721-1)
🗓️ 12 Mar 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 55 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exim 4.84-3 - Privilege Escalation | 9 Mar 201600:00 | – | zdt | |
| Exim < 4.86.2 - Privilege Escalation | 10 Mar 201600:00 | – | zdt | |
| Exim - 'perl_startup' Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) | 15 Apr 201600:00 | – | zdt | |
| exim -- local privillege escalation | 26 Feb 201600:00 | – | freebsd | |
| exim: privilege escalation | 10 Mar 201600:00 | – | archlinux | |
| CVE-2016-1531 | 9 Mar 201600:00 | – | circl | |
| Exim Configuration File Path Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability | 7 Mar 201600:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2016-1531 | 7 Apr 201623:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2016-1531 | 7 Apr 201623:00 | – | cvelist | |
| [SECURITY] [DSA 3517-1] exim4 security update | 14 Mar 201605:48 | – | debian |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.851232");
script_version("2026-04-24T06:23:04+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-04-24 06:23:04 +0000 (Fri, 24 Apr 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-03-12 06:15:07 +0100 (Sat, 12 Mar 2016)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1531");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.9");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-09-08 01:29:00 +0000 (Fri, 08 Sep 2017)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_name("openSUSE: Security Advisory for exim (openSUSE-SU-2016:0721-1)");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update for the 'exim'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This update to exim 4.86.2 fixes the following issues:
* CVE-2016-1531: local privilege escalation for set-uid root exim when
using 'perl_startup' (boo#968844)
Important: Exim now cleans the complete execution environment by default.
This affects Exim and subprocesses such as transports calling other
programs. The following new options are supported to adjust this behaviour:
* keep_environment
* add_environment A warning will be printed upon startup if none of these
are configured.
Also includes upstream changes, improvements and bug fixes:
* Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
* New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file and
directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
* New 'malware=' support for Avast.
* New 'spam=' variant option for Rspamd.
* Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
* A commandline option to write a comment into the logfile.
* A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
* New ${env { variable }} expansion.
* A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client
certificates.
* Main option 'tls_eccurve' for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
* Main option 'dns_trust_aa' for trusting your local nameserver at the
same level as DNSSEC.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"exim on openSUSE Leap 42.1, openSUSE 13.2");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Please install the updated package(s).");
script_xref(name:"openSUSE-SU", value:"2016:0721-1");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_family("SuSE Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/suse", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=openSUSE13\.2");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release)
exit(0);
res = "";
report = "";
if(release == "openSUSE13.2")
{
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"exim", rpm:"exim~4.86.2~3.10.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"exim-debuginfo", rpm:"exim-debuginfo~4.86.2~3.10.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"exim-debugsource", rpm:"exim-debugsource~4.86.2~3.10.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"eximon", rpm:"eximon~4.86.2~3.10.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"eximon-debuginfo", rpm:"eximon-debuginfo~4.86.2~3.10.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(!isnull(res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"eximstats-html", rpm:"eximstats-html~4.86.2~3.10.1", rls:"openSUSE13.2"))) {
report += res;
}
if(report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if(__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
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