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CVE-2010-4345

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2011-01-08 exim -- local privilege escalation

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2010-4345
Phase Assigned(20101130)

Description

Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate configuration file with a directive that contains arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20101213 Exim security issue in historical release
MLIST [exim-dev] 20101207 Remote root vulnerability in Exim
MLIST [exim-dev] 20101209 Re: [Exim-maintainers] Remote root vulnerability in Exim
MLIST [exim-dev] 20101210 Re: Remote root vulnerability in Exim
MLIST [oss-security] 20101210 Exim remote root
MISC http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/unix/smtp/exim4_string_format
MISC http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/11/exim_code_execution_peril/
CONFIRM http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662012
CONFIRM http://www.cpanel.net/2010/12/critical-exim-security-update.html
DEBIAN DSA-2131
DEBIAN DSA-2154
REDHAT RHSA-2011:0153
SUSE SUSE-SA:2010:059
UBUNTU USN-1060-1
CERT-VN VU#758489
BID 45341
SECTRACK 1024859
SECUNIA 42576
SECUNIA 42930
SECUNIA 43128
SECUNIA 43243
VUPEN ADV-2010-3171
VUPEN ADV-2010-3204
VUPEN ADV-2011-0135
VUPEN ADV-2011-0245
VUPEN ADV-2011-0364