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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69730
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2232-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'exim4' package(s) announced via the DSA-2232-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'exim4' package(s) announced via the DSA-2232-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that Exim, the default mail transport agent in Debian, uses DKIM data obtain from DNS directly in a format string, potentially allowing malicious mail senders to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2011-1764)

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem because it does not contain DKIM support.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.72-6+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.75-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your exim4 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'exim4' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1764
Debian Security Information: DSA-2232 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2232
http://secunia.com/advisories/51155
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2011:009 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG

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