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Re: Local root vulnerability found in exim 4.x (and 3.x)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tabor J. Wells)
Thu Dec 5 21:24:31 2002

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:00:50 -0500
From: "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@fsckit.net>
To: Wana Thomas <01psi194@fhwn.ac.at>
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[Bugtraq moderator: Please approve this post rather than my previous one.
The archive link in that post munges the patches. Thanks]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:40:29PM +0100,
Wana Thomas <01psi194@fhwn.ac.at> is thought to have said:

> Solution
> --------
> 
> Exim developers have been informed and a patch will be
> ready shortly.

Philip Hazel, the author of Exim, released patches for 4.10 and 3.36 on the
exim-users list earlier today. Further details on the vulnerability and 
the patches for both versions can be found in the list archives below:

http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20021202/046978.html

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Tabor J. Wells                                     twells@fsckit.net
Fsck It!                 Just another victim of the ambient morality

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