USN-6411-1: Exim vulnerabilities

4 October 2023

Several security issues were fixed in Exim.

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Releases

Packages

  • exim4 - Exim is a mail transport agent

Details

It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain challenge requests.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform out-of-bounds
reads, resulting in information leakage. (CVE-2023-42114)

It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled validation of user-supplied
data. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
out-of-bounds writes, resulting in arbitrary code execution. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04.
(CVE-2023-42115)

It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain challenge requests.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform out-of-bounds
writes, resulting in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2023-42116)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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