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Fedora 42 Exim Important Security Fix Advisory 2026-fff37fe569

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Exim update for Fedora 42 fixes critical bugs and optimizes performance. Ensure to upgrade for enhanced security!
This is new version of exim fixing some security bugs.

Summary

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of

Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is

freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. In

style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are more

general. There is a great deal of flexibility in the way mail can be

routed, and there are extensive facilities for checking incoming

mail. Exim can be installed in place of sendmail, although the

configuration of exim is quite different to that of sendmail.

Update Information:

This is new version of exim fixing some security bugs.

Change Log

* Thu Apr 30 2026 Jaroslav \u0160karvada - 4.99.2-1 - New version Resolves: rhbz#2463798 - Refreshed keyring * Mon Jan 19 2026 Jaroslav \u0160karvada - 4.99.1-3 - Dummy rebuild to check the CI functionality * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.99.1-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2463798 - exim-4.99.2 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463798

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-fff37fe569' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: exim
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 4.99.2
Release: 1.fc42
Summary: The exim mail transfer agent

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