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Fedora 26 Exim Security Advisory: Memory Leak Resolution

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A crucial patch for Fedora 26 has been released to tackle vulnerabilities in exim relating to memory exploitation. Take action promptly!
This is an update fixing multiple memory leaks and other problems.

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.

This is an update fixing multiple memory leaks and other problems.

[ 1 ] Bug #1457748 - CVE-2017-1000369 Exim: Privilege escalation via multiple memory leaks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457748

su -c 'dnf upgrade exim' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.89
Release: 5.fc26
Summary: The exim mail transfer agent

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