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
20 exists as a POC. For more details see the document qualys.mbx
25 Do not offer TLS. (This mitigation is not recommended.)
30 Download and build a fixed version:
32 Tarballs: https://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/
33 Git: https://github.com/Exim/exim.git
35 - branch exim-4.92.2+fixes
37 The tagged commit is the officially released version. The +fixes branch
38 isn't officially maintained, but contains the security fix *and* useful
41 If you can't install the above versions, ask your package maintainer for
42 a version containing the backported fix. On request and depending on our
43 resources we will support you in backporting the fix. (Please note,
44 the Exim project officially doesn't support versions prior the current