X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/jgh/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/7f7f05454657fe756dd06d2ee11bfe70c5a1a9a0..b7487bcec431809cb7fc3c2b42fcd607e43d37e7:/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index f668ae152..3a3ad5de5 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -9,6 +9,21 @@ test from the snapshots or the CVS before the documentation is updated. Once the documentation is updated, this file is reduced to a short list. +Version 4.74 +------------ + + 1. SECURITY FIX: privilege escalation flaw fixed. On Linux (and only Linux) + the flaw permitted the Exim run-time user to cause root to append to + arbitrary files of the attacker's choosing, with the content based + on content supplied by the attacker. + + 2. Exim now supports loading some lookup types at run-time, using your + platform's dlopen() functionality. This has limited platform support + and the intention is not to support every variant, it's limited to + dlopen(). This permits the main Exim binary to not be linked against + all the libraries needed for all the lookup types. + + Version 4.73 ------------