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openSUSE Leap 15.0 & 15.1: 2019:2093-1 Important Exim Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2019
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important patch for Exim resolves a critical buffer overflow issue found in openSUSE Leap 15.1 and 15.0.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

exim was updated to fix a security issue:

- CVE-2019-15846: Fixed a buffer overflow in SMTP Delivery process where a

remote attacker could execute code with root privileges by sending

crafted SNI data (boo#1149182).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2093=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2093=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

exim-4.88-lp151.4.9.1

exim-debuginfo-4.88-lp151.4.9.1

exim-debugsource-4.88-lp151.4.9.1

eximon-4.88-lp151.4.9.1

eximon-debuginfo-4.88-lp151.4.9.1

eximstats-html-4.88-lp151.4.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

exim-4.88-lp150.3.9.1

exim-debuginfo-4.88-lp150.3.9.1

exim-debugsource-4.88-lp150.3.9.1

eximon-4.88-lp150.3.9.1

eximon-debuginfo-4.88-lp150.3.9.1

eximstats-html-4.88-lp150.3.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-15846.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1149182

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2093-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 openSUSE Leap 15.0

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