Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4488-1 exim4 -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 25 Jul 2019
- Affected Packages:
- exim4
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-13917.
- More information:
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Jeremy Harris discovered that Exim, a mail transport agent, does not properly handle the ${sort } expansion. This flaw can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute programs with root privileges in non-default (and unusual) configurations where ${sort } expansion is used for items that can be controlled by an attacker.
For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.89-2+deb9u5.
For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 4.92-8+deb10u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.