Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package exim-greylist  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-EXIMGREYLIST-2974658
  • published5 Aug 2022
  • disclosed6 May 2021

Introduced: 6 May 2021

CVE-2021-27216  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Amazon-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Amazon-Linux:2018.03.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exim-greylist package and not the exim-greylist package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. By leveraging a delete_pid_file race condition, a local user can delete arbitrary files as root. This involves the -oP and -oPX options.