USN-4124-2: Exim vulnerability exim4 vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Summary Exim could be made to run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software Description exim4 – Exim is a mail transport agent Details USN-4124-1 fixed a vulnerability in Exim. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled certain decoding operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM exim4-daemon-heavy – 4.82-3ubuntu2.4+esm1 exim4-daemon-light – 4.82-3ubuntu2.4+esm1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References USN-4124-1 CVE-2019-15846 Source: USN-4124-2: [ more… ]