Synopsis: Critical: exim security update Issue date: 2010-12-10 CVE Names: CVE-2010-4344 A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in Exim's internal string_vformat() function. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the mail server running Exim. (CVE-2010-4344) Note: successful exploitation would allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root on a Scientific Linux 4 or 5 system that is running the Exim mail server. An exploit for this issue is known to exist. After installing this update, the Exim daemon will be restarted automatically. SL 4.x SRPMS: exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386: exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.i386.rpm exim-doc-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.i386.rpm exim-mon-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.i386.rpm exim-sa-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.i386.rpm x86_64: exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm exim-doc-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm exim-mon-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm exim-sa-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: exim-4.63-5.el5_5.2.src.rpm i386: exim-4.63-5.el5_5.2.i386.rpm exim-mon-4.63-5.el5_5.2.i386.rpm exim-sa-4.63-5.el5_5.2.i386.rpm x86_64: exim-4.63-5.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm exim-mon-4.63-5.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm exim-sa-4.63-5.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson