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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2236-1 (exim4)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to exim4 announced via advisory DSA 2236-1.
Insight
Insight
It was discovered that Exim, Debian's default mail transfer agent, is vulnerable to command injection attacks in its DKIM processing code, leading to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-1407) The default configuration supplied by Debian does not expose this vulnerability. The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.72-6+squeeze2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.76-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.