Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title exim4 security update
Informations
Name DSA-4456 First vendor Publication 2019-06-05
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2019-06-05
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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

The Qualys Research Labs reported a flaw in Exim, a mail transport agent. Improper validation of the recipient address in the deliver_message() function may result in the execution of arbitrary commands.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.89-2+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.

For the detailed security status of exim4 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/exim4

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4456

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 132
Os 2
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-07-09 Exim remote command execution attempt
RuleID : 50356 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-MAIL

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Date Informations
2019-06-05 21:21:57
  • Multiple Updates
2019-06-05 21:18:34
  • First insertion