{"id":38530,"date":"2019-10-31T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/blog\/opublikovan-exim-4-92-3-s-ustraneniem-chetvyortoj-za-god-kriticheskoj-uyazvimosti\/"},"modified":"2019-10-31T22:24:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:24:20","slug":"opublikovan-exim-4-92-3-s-ustraneniem-chetvyortoj-za-god-kriticheskoj-uyazvimosti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prohoster.info\/en\/blog\/news\/opublikovan-exim-4-92-3-s-ustraneniem-chetvyortoj-za-god-kriticheskoj-uyazvimosti","title":{"rendered":"Exim 4.92.3 has been released, addressing the fourth critical vulnerability of the year.","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/lists.exim.org\/lurker\/message\/20190928.232024.589b2ef5.en.html\">Published<\/a><\/noindex> Emergency release of the mail server <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exim.org\/\">Exim 4.92.3<\/a><\/noindex> addressing yet another <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/exim.org\/static\/doc\/security\/CVE-2019-16928.txt\">critical vulnerability<\/a><\/noindex> (<noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/security-tracker.debian.org\/tracker\/CVE-2019-16928\">CVE-2019-16928<\/a><\/noindex>), potentially allowing remote code execution on the server through a specially crafted string in the EHLO command. The vulnerability occurs after privilege escalation and is limited to executing code with the rights of a non-privileged user under which the incoming message handler operates.<\/p>\n<p>The issue only affects the Exim 4.92 branch (4.92.0, 4.92.1, and 4.92.2) and does not overlap with the vulnerability fixed earlier this month <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opennet.ru\/opennews\/art.shtml?num=51435\">CVE-2019-15846<\/a><\/noindex>. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow in the function <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/git.exim.org\/exim.git\/blob\/cf84d126bc:\/src\/src\/string.c#l1287\">string_vformat()<\/a><\/noindex>, defined in the string.c file. The demonstrated <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/git.exim.org\/exim.git\/patch\/478effbfd9c3cc5a627fc671d4bf94d13670d65f\">exploit<\/a><\/noindex> can cause a crash by passing a long string (several kilobytes) in the EHLO command, but the vulnerability can also be exploited through other commands and potentially used for remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>No workarounds to mitigate the vulnerability exist, so all users are strongly advised to urgently install the update, apply <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/git.exim.org\/exim.git\/patch\/478effbfd9c3cc5a627fc671d4bf94d13670d65f\">patch<\/a><\/noindex> or ensure they are using distribution-provided packages that include fixes for the relevant vulnerabilities. The fix has been released for <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/usn.ubuntu.com\/4141-1\/\">Ubuntu<\/a><\/noindex> (affects only the 19.04 branch), <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archlinux.org\/packages\/?q=exim\">Arch Linux<\/a><\/noindex>, <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vuxml.org\/freebsd\/e917caba-e291-11e9-89f1-152fed202bb7.html\">FreeBSD<\/a><\/noindex>, <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/security-tracker.debian.org\/tracker\/CVE-2019-16928\">Debian<\/a><\/noindex> (affects only Debian 10 Buster) and <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/bodhi.fedoraproject.org\/updates\/?search=exim\">Alpine<\/a><\/noindex>. RHEL and CentOS are not affected by the issue as Exim is not included in their default package repository (in <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/EPEL\">EPEL7<\/a><\/noindex> the update is still <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/7\/SRPMS\/Packages\/e\/\">is missing<\/a><\/noindex>). In SUSE\/openSUSE, the vulnerability does not manifest due to the use of Exim version 4.88.<\/p>\n<p><noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"link\"><\/a><\/noindex><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a \ncontent=\"nofollow\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opennet.ru\/opennews\/art.shtml?num=51590\">opennet.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u041e\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d \u044d\u043a\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0432\u044b\u043f\u0443\u0441\u043a \u043f\u043e\u0447\u0442\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0430 Exim 4.92.3 \u0441 \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435\u043c \u043e\u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0443\u044f\u0437\u0432\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 (CVE-2019-16928), 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