exim4 vulnerability

26 October 2012

exim4 vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Exim could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description

• exim4 - Exim is a mail transport agent

Details

It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled DKIM DNS decoding. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10

exim4-daemon-custom - 4.80-3ubuntu1.1

exim4-daemon-heavy - 4.80-3ubuntu1.1

exim4-daemon-light - 4.80-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

exim4-daemon-custom - 4.76-3ubuntu3.1

exim4-daemon-heavy - 4.76-3ubuntu3.1

exim4-daemon-light - 4.76-3ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 11.10

exim4-daemon-custom - 4.76-2ubuntu1.1

exim4-daemon-heavy - 4.76-2ubuntu1.1

exim4-daemon-light - 4.76-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.04

exim4-daemon-custom - 4.74-1ubuntu1.3

exim4-daemon-heavy - 4.74-1ubuntu1.3

exim4-daemon-light - 4.74-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

exim4-daemon-custom - 4.71-3ubuntu1.4

exim4-daemon-heavy - 4.71-3ubuntu1.4

exim4-daemon-light - 4.71-3ubuntu1.4

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

• CVE-2012-5671