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USN-1032-1: Exim vulnerability

11 December 2010

A remote attacker could send crafted email to gain root access.

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Details

Sergey Kononenko and Eugene Bujak discovered that Exim did not correctly
truncate string expansions. A remote attacker could send specially crafted
email traffic to run arbitrary code as the Exim user, which could also
lead to root privileges.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06

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

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