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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3888-1 exim4 -- security update

Date Reported:

19 Jun 2017

Affected Packages:

exim4

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000369.

More information:

The Qualys Research Labs discovered a memory leak in the Exim mail transport agent. This is not a security vulnerability in Exim by itself, but can be used to exploit a vulnerability in stack handling. For the full details, please refer to their advisory published at: https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.84.2-2+deb8u4.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 4.89-2+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.