-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200309-09 - - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------           PACKAGE : exim           SUMMARY : buffer overflow              DATE : 2003-09-15 13:07 UTC           EXPLOIT : remote VERSIONS AFFECTED : =exim-4.21               CVE : CAN-2003-0743 - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- quote from advisory: "There's a heap overflow in all versions of exim3 and exim4 prior to version 4.21. It can be exercised by anyone who can make an SMTP connection to the exim daemon." read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=vuln-dev&m=106264740820334&w=2 Altough not thought to be exploitable, users are encouraged to upgrade exim. SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-mail/exim upgrade to exim-4.21 as follows: emerge sync emerge exim emerge clean - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~aliz raker@gentoo.org - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ZbmwfT7nyhUpoZMRAkuoAJ973hWIgX1pY6LW/fc6eP0pGZO0NQCcCzMh VKHtQnVqlREiVHksIh6xj/0= =emxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----