vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-7d09b9ee-e0ba-11e5-abc4-6fb07af136d2 (CVE-2016-1531): exim -- local privillege escalation
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Mar 2, 2016 | Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 2, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
The Exim development team reports: All installations having Exim set-uid root and using 'perl_startup' are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation. Any user who can start an instance of Exim (and this is normally any user) can gain root privileges. If you do not use 'perl_startup' you should be safe.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-exim
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