Debian dsa-6265 : exim4 - security update

The remote Debian 12 / 13 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-6265 advisory. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-6265-1 [email protected]...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42114

Exim NTLM Challenge Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Exim. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling o...

SUSE CVE-2020-28011

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow in queuerun via two sender options: -R and -S. This may cause privilege escalation from exim to root...

Ghost glibc Vulnerability Patching and Exploits

There are some silver linings in the wake of yesterday’s disclosure of the Ghost vulnerability in the Gnu C library, glibc, which affects all Linux systems and seemed to harken yet another Internet-wide vulnerability. First, the 15-year-old bug isn’t the showstopper that the Shellshock...

Exim vulnerable to buffer overflow via the dns_build_reverse() routine

Overview The Exim Mail Transfer Agent MTA contains a buffer overflow that allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code. Description Exim MTA is an open-source mail transport agent distributed by the University of Cambridge. A lack of input validation on user supplied data may allow a buffer...

[SECURITY] [DSA-058-1] exim printf format attack

Package : exim Problem type : remote printf format attack Debian-specific: no Megyer Laszlo found a printf format bug in the exim mail transfer agent. The code that checks the header syntax of an email logs an error without protecting itself against printf format attacks. This problem has been...