2 Date: 2019-09-02 (CVE assigned)
3 Credits: Zerons <sironhide0null@gmail.com> for the initial report
4 Qualys https://www.qualys.com/ for the analysis
5 Version(s): all versions up to and including 4.92.1
6 Issue: A local or remote attacker can execute programs with root
9 Conditions to be vulnerable
10 ===========================
12 If your Exim server accepts TLS connections, it is vulnerable. This does
13 not depend on the TLS libray, so both, GnuTLS and OpenSSL are affected.
18 The vulnerability is exploitable by sending a SNI ending in a
19 backslash-null sequence during the initial TLS handshake. The exploit
22 For more details see doc/doc-txt/cve-2019-15846/ in the source code
28 Do not offer TLS. (This mitigation is not recommended.)
30 For a attacking SNI the following ACL snippet should work:
32 # to be prepended to your mail acl (the ACL referenced
33 # by the acl_smtp_mail main config option)
34 deny condition = ${if eq{\\}{${substr{-1}{1}{$tls_in_sni}}}}
35 deny condition = ${if eq{\\}{${substr{-1}{1}{$tls_in_peerdn}}}}
40 Download and build a fixed version:
42 Tarballs: https://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/
43 Git: https://github.com/Exim/exim.git
45 - branch exim-4.92.2+fixes
47 The tagged commit is the officially released version. The +fixes branch
48 isn't officially maintained, but contains the security fix *and* useful
51 If you can't install the above versions, ask your package maintainer for
52 a version containing the backported fix. On request and depending on our
53 resources we will support you in backporting the fix. (Please note,
54 the Exim project officially doesn't support versions prior the current
60 2019-07-21 - Report from Zerons to security@exim.org
61 ....-..-.. - Analysis by Qualys
63 2019-09-02 - CVE assigned
64 2019-09-03 - Details to distros@vs.openwall.org, exim-maintainers@exim.org
65 - Grant access to the security repo
66 2019-09-04 - Heads-Up to oss-security@lists.openwall.com, exim-users@exim.org
67 2019-09-06 - 10.00 UTC Coordinated Release Date
68 - Disclosure to oss-security, exim-users, public repositories