Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS : Exim vulnerability (USN-8353-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8353-1 advisory. Warisjeet Singh discovered that Exim with SUPPORTPROXY enabled did not properly handle memory before SMTP authentication. A remote...

USN-8353-1 exim4 vulnerability

Warisjeet Singh discovered that Exim with SUPPORTPROXY enabled did not properly handle memory before SMTP authentication. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information...

[BSA-135] Security Update for exim4

Andreas Metzler uploaded new packages for exim4 which fixed the following security problems: CVE-2026-48840 PROXYv2 parser: reject PROXY frames whose declared payload length is too short for the claimed address family 12 bytes for TCPv4/0x11, 36 bytes for TCPv6/0x21. Previously a frame with...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-48840

Exim 4.88 before 4.99.4, in some proxy configurations, mishandles certain short payloads, leading to disclosure of uninitialized stack memory values to a client...