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Debian Lenny DSA-2131-1 Critical: Exim4 Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2010
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Patch for remote code execution vulnerability in exim4 installations; update is advised to maintain system integrity.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in exim4 that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root user

Summary

This update fixes a memory corruption issue that allows a remote
attacker to execute arbitrary code as the Debian-exim user
(CVE-2010-4344).

A fix for an additional issue that allows the Debian-exim user to
obtain root privileges (CVE-2010-4345) is currently being checked for
compatibility issues. It is not yet included in this upgrade but will
released soon in an update to this advisory.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.69-9+lenny1.

This advisory only contains the packages for the alpha, amd64, hppa,
i386, ia64, powerpc, and s390 architectures. The packages for the
arm, armel, mips, mipsel, and sparc architectures will be released
as soon as they are built.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.70-1.

We strongly recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
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