Synopsis: Moderate: exim security update Issue date: 2011-01-17 CVE Names: CVE-2010-4345 A privilege escalation flaw was discovered in Exim. If an attacker were able to gain access to the "exim" user, they could cause Exim to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. (CVE-2010-4345) This update adds a new configuration file, "/etc/exim/trusted-configs". To prevent Exim from running arbitrary commands as root, Exim will now drop privileges when run with a configuration file not listed as trusted. This could break backwards compatibility with some Exim configurations, as the trusted-configs file only trusts "/etc/exim/exim.conf" and "/etc/exim/exim4.conf" by default. If you are using a configuration file not listed in the new trusted-configs file, you will need to add it manually. Additionally, Exim will no longer allow a user to execute exim as root with the -D command line option to override macro definitions. All macro definitions that require root permissions must now reside in a trusted configuration file. After installing this update, the exim daemon will be restarted automatically. SL 4.x SRPMS: exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.src.rpm i386: exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.i386.rpm exim-doc-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.i386.rpm exim-mon-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.i386.rpm exim-sa-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.i386.rpm x86_64: exim-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm exim-doc-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm exim-mon-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm exim-sa-4.43-1.RHEL4.5.el4_8.3.x86_64.rpm SL 5.x SRPMS: exim-4.63-5.el5_6.2.src.rpm i386: exim-4.63-5.el5_6.2.i386.rpm exim-mon-4.63-5.el5_6.2.i386.rpm exim-sa-4.63-5.el5_6.2.i386.rpm x86_64: exim-4.63-5.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm exim-mon-4.63-5.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm exim-sa-4.63-5.el5_6.2.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson