X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/37a81ae7317bb78b2ff152821930c2ff0873512b..a522411280b4f851587511c26ea620481a11660e:/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index b20991280..4e0d602dd 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -2,6 +2,25 @@ This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog. +Exim version 4.95 +----------------- + +JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from + after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should + mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception + to senders. + +JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer + being developed or supported (by the original developer). + +JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version + bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset" + global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore + not be modified by local-scan code. + +JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for + sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it. + Exim version 4.95 ----------------- @@ -38,7 +57,7 @@ JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix - by adding a relase action in that path. + by adding a release action in that path. JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using @@ -75,7 +94,7 @@ JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time - spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed + spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction. Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it @@ -83,12 +102,12 @@ JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not - intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by + intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH. JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using - dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a + dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier. @@ -146,15 +165,15 @@ JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines, JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured, - in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in - a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single + in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in + a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size. JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice. Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms - alrready coded. + already coded. JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued. @@ -182,8 +201,159 @@ JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given - as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation. + as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication. + +JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element + referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected + $domain_part_data. + +JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password + generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition + of a new variable: $auth4. + +JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was + left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in + the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work. + This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain + sockets (i.e. not Linux). + +JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many + recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The + previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING + would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message. + +JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers. + Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks + proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting. + +JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did + not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While + investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist, + dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains, + mx_fail_domains. + +JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data. + Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed. + This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing + memory. + +JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it + per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size + was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making + DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks. + +JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the + same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint. + +JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters + for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug, + looked as if if might be one. + +JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a + "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously + the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent + transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the + messages can show the proxy information. + +JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the + receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant. + The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector + "queue_time_exclusive". + +JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL + content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions + resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content. + +JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped, + making it unusable in complex expressions. + +JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would + fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message + queued. + +HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name. + +HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process. + +PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL. + +PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants. + A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some + incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source. + Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott. + +PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options. + Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys. + +PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX + better. Reported by Qualys. + +PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker + providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name. + Reported by Qualys. + +PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase() + +PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations. + Security guard. + +PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000. + +PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a + known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited, + or if local additions add to the recipient list). + Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys. + +PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing + Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys. + +PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion. + Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT + data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT + mode until after various protocol state checks. + Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys. + +HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names + +QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of + the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files. + +QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim + runtime user. + +QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not + pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to + executed child processes (if any). + +QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is + disabled. + +JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken + the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included. + This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has + been reported on other platforms. + +JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use. + +JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in- + depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys. + Not supported on Solaris 10. + +JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data. + Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present + since fakereject was originally introduced. + +JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag + modifier was given, a loop resulted. + +JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a + pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be + incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification + fail. +JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They + require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses, + which only permit IP addresses. Exim version 4.94