Race Condition Affecting exim/exim package, versions [,4.72)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXIMEXIM-2364604
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jun 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jun 2010

CVE-2010-2024  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade exim/exim to version 4.72 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition transports/appendfile.c in Exim before 4.72, when MBX locking is enabled, allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary files or create arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges, via a symlink attack on a lockfile in /tmp/.

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