Executive Summary

Summary
Title exim4 security update
Informations
Name DSA-3517 First vendor Publication 2016-03-14
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2016-03-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 6.9 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A local root privilege escalation vulnerability was found in Exim, Debian's default mail transfer agent, in configurations using the 'perl_startup' option (Only Exim via exim4-daemon-heavy enables Perl support).

To address the vulnerability, updated Exim versions clean the complete execution environment by default, affecting Exim and subprocesses such as transports calling other programs, and thus may break existing installations. New configuration options (keep_environment, add_environment) were introduced to adjust this behavior.

More information can be found in the upstream advisory at https://www.exim.org/static/doc/CVE-2016-1531.txt

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 4.80-7+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.84.2-1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.86.2-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.86.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3517

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 89

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-08-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-980.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-16 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-2933-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-15 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3517.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-0e3ca94d88.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-e062971917.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-326.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-03-03 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_7d09b9eee0ba11e5abc46fb07af136d2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-04-11 21:30:22
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-08 05:29:00
  • Multiple Updates
2016-03-16 13:26:09
  • Multiple Updates
2016-03-14 09:25:35
  • Multiple Updates
2016-03-14 09:20:54
  • First insertion