USN-4075-1: Exim vulnerability
USN-4075-1: Exim vulnerability exim4 vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 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 Jeremy Harris discovered that Exim incorrectly handled sort expansions. In environments where sort expansions are used, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 exim4-daemon-heavy – 4.92-4ubuntu1.2 exim4-daemon-light – 4.92-4ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS exim4-daemon-heavy – 4.90.1-1ubuntu1.3 exim4-daemon-light – 4.90.1-1ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS exim4-daemon-heavy – 4.86.2-2ubuntu2.4 exim4-daemon-light – 4.86.2-2ubuntu2.4 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update [ more… ]