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Fedora 22 Exim: Critical Security Update For Local Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Latest Fedora 22 security patch for exim fixes privilege escalation vulnerabilities in perl_startup settings. Update immediately to ensure system integrity.
This is new version fixing local privilege escalation for set-uid root when using perl_startup.

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 fixing local privilege escalation for set-uid root when using perl_startup.

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1314293 - CVE-2016-1531 exim: local root privilege escalation for configurations with perl_startup https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314293

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update exim' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: exim
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 4.85.2
Release: 1.fc22
Summary: The exim mail transfer agent

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