File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.4780
<patchinfo incident="4780">
<packager>lmuelle</packager>
<issue tracker="cve" id="CVE-2016-1531"></issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="968844">VUL-0: CVE-2016-1531: exim: local privilege escalation for set-uid root exim when using perl_startup</issue>
<category>security</category>
<rating>important</rating>
<summary>Security update for exim</summary>
<description>This update to exim 4.86.2 fixes the following issues:
* CVE-2016-1531: local privilege escalation for set-uid root exim when using 'perl_startup' (boo#968844)
Important: Exim now cleans the complete execution environment by default. This affects Exim and subprocesses such as transports calling other programs. The following new options are supported to adjust this behaviour:
* keep_environment
* add_environment
A warning will be printed upon startup if none of these are configured.
Also includes upstream changes, improvements and bug fixes:
* Support for using the system standard CA bundle.
* New expansion items $config_file, $config_dir, containing the file and directory name of the main configuration file. Also $exim_version.
* New "malware=" support for Avast.
* New "spam=" variant option for Rspamd.
* Assorted options on malware= and spam= scanners.
* A commandline option to write a comment into the logfile.
* A logging option for slow DNS lookups.
* New ${env {<variable>}} expansion.
* A non-SMTP authenticator using information from TLS client certificates.
* Main option "tls_eccurve" for selecting an Elliptic Curve for TLS.
* Main option "dns_trust_aa" for trusting your local nameserver at the same level as DNSSEC.
</description>
</patchinfo>