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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69735
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2236-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'exim4' package(s) announced via the DSA-2236-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'exim4' package(s) announced via the DSA-2236-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that Exim, Debian's default mail transfer agent, is vulnerable to command injection attacks in its DKIM processing code, leading to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-1407)

The default configuration supplied by Debian does not expose this vulnerability.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 4.72-6+squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 4.76-1.

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-2011-1407
BugTraq ID: 47836
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47836
Debian Security Information: DSA-2236 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2236
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20110509.091632.daed0206.en.html
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20110512.102909.8136175a.en.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1135-1
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG

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