vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2933-1 (CVE-2016-1531): Exim vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 15, 2016
Added
Apr 7, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Exim before 4.86.2, when installed setuid root, allows local users to gain privileges via the perl_startup argument.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-exim4-daemon-customubuntu-upgrade-exim4-daemon-heavyubuntu-upgrade-exim4-daemon-light
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