Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:33:19 +0100
From: Daniel Ahlberg <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]Subject: GLSA: exim
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200212-5
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PACKAGE : exim
SUMMARY═: local root vulnerability
DATE ══ : 2002-12-16 16:12 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
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- From advisory:
"This is a format string bug in daemon.c, line 976:
sprintf(CS buff, CS pid_file_path, ""); /* Backward compatibility */
pid_file_path can be changed on the command line.
This line is in the function daemon_go(), which only
gets executed when the user is an exim-admin-user."
Read the full advisory at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103903403527788&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/exim-4.05 and earlier update their systems as follows:
emerge rsync
emerge exim
emerge clean
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[email protected] - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
[email protected]
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