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openSUSE 42.1: 2016:0721-1 Important Exim Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
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Description

This update to exim 4.86.2 fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2016-1531: local privilege escalation for set-uid root exim when

using 'perl_startup' (boo#968844)

Important: Exim now cleans the complete execution environment by default.

This affects Exim and subprocesses such as transports calling other

programs. The following new options are supported to adjust this behaviour:

* keep_environment

* add_environment A warning will be printed upon startup if none of these

are configured.

Also includes upstream changes, improvements and bug fixes:

* Support for using the system standard CA bundle.

* New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file and

directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.

* New "malware=" support for Avast.

* New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.

* Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.

* A commandline option to write a comment into the...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-326=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-326=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

exim-4.86.2-8.1

exim-debuginfo-4.86.2-8.1

exim-debugsource-4.86.2-8.1

eximon-4.86.2-8.1

eximon-debuginfo-4.86.2-8.1

eximstats-html-4.86.2-8.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

exim-4.86.2-3.10.1

exim-debuginfo-4.86.2-3.10.1

exim-debugsource-4.86.2-3.10.1

eximon-4.86.2-3.10.1

eximon-debuginfo-4.86.2-3.10.1

eximstats-html-4.86.2-3.10.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1531.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968844

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0721-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2

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