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Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:57:21 -0400
From: Phil Pennock <oss-security-phil@...dhuis.org>
To: OSS Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Fwd: [exim-announce] Exim 4.82.1 Security Release
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Short version: Exim MTA, CVE-2014-2957, remote code execution based on
email header content when built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC option.
Flaw introduced with that option in Exim 4.82, which was previously the
current release; no prior releases affected. EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC is not
on by default. 4.82.1 is 4.82 with only this fix. Exploitation
difficulty should be considered "trivial".
(We're also about to start the RC series for 4.83, which has many many
more changes; this issue warranted backport).
Heads-up went to packagers who've worked closely with us in the past
and, I believe, belatedly to linux-distros@. That included the new
release tarballs and the separated out patch, also PGP-signed (by an
Exim Maintainer key in the Strong Set, per our policy, to maximise
chances of verifiability).
Root cause: lack of more experienced Exim developer oversight in
reviewing commits, given the nature of the comment attached to the bad
code:
http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff/5b7a7c051c9ab9ee7c924a611f90ef2be03e0ad0
Also: layer violation, a highly convenient language for configuration
and a lack of tainting at the C level to catch this and scream, when
untrusted data is inserted via %s formatting into a string which is then
expanded with the full power of the configuration language. Morally
equivalent to "shell eval of header content".
Regards,
- -Phil, pdp@...m.org
- ----- Forwarded message from Todd Lyons <tlyons@...m.org> -----
From: Todd Lyons <tlyons@...m.org>
Subject: [exim-announce] Exim 4.82.1 Security Release
To: Exim Dev <exim-dev@...m.org>, Exim Users <exim-users@...m.org>, Exim Announce <exim-announce@...m.org>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 13:25:36 +0100
Message-ID: <20140528122535.GA28379@...m.org>
Exim release 4.82.1 is now available from the primary ftp site:
* ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-4.82.1.tar.gz
* ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-4.82.1.tar.bz2
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This is a SECURITY release, addressing a CRITICAL remote code execution
flaw in Exim version 4.82 (only) when built with DMARC support (an
experimental feature, not on by default). This release is identical to
4.82 except for the small change needed to plug the security hole. The
next release of Exim will, eventually, be 4.83, which will include the
many improvements we've made since 4.82, but which will require the
normal release candidate baking process before release.
You are not vulnerable unless you built Exim with EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC.
This issue is known by the CVE ID of CVE-2014-2957, was reported
directly to the Exim development team by a company which uses Exim for
its mail server. An Exim developer constructed a small patch which
altered the way the contents of the From header is parsed by converting
it to use safer and better internal functions. It was applied and
tested on a production server for correctness. We were notified of the
vulnerability Friday night, created a patch on Saturday, applied and
tested it on Sunday, notified OS packagers on Monday/Tuesday, and are
releasing on the next available work day, which is Wednesday.
This is why we have made the smallest feasible changes to prevent
exploit: we want this chagne to be as safe as possible to expedite into
production (if the packages were built with DMARC).
_________________________________________________________________
The primary ftp server is in Cambridge, England. There is a list of
mirrors in:
* http://www.exim.org/mirmon/ftp_mirrors.html
The master ftp server is ftp.exim.org, which is also accessible at
http://ftp.exim.org.
The distribution files are signed with Todd Lyons' PGP key
0xC4F4F94804D29EBA (uid tlyons@...m.org with a strong relationship to
prior release engineer Phil Pennock's PGP key 0x403043153903637F). This
key should be available from all modern PGP keyservers. Please use your
own discretion in assessing what trust paths you might have to this uid;
the "Release verification" section of the Release Policy might be of
assistance:
* http://wiki.exim.org/EximReleasePolicy
The detached ASCII signature files are in the same directory as the
tarbundles. The SHA256 hashes for the distribution files are at the end
of this email.
The distribution contains an ASCII copy of the 4.82.1 manual and
other documents. Other formats of the documentation are also
available:-
* ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-html-4.82.1.tar.gz
* ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-pdf-4.82.1.tar.gz
* ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-postscript-4.82.1.tar.gz
The .bz2 versions of these tarbundles are also available.
The only change is this bugfix, thus no ChangeLog-4.82.1 file.
There are no new features, thus no NewStuff-4.82.1 file.
_________________________________________________________________
Release Checksums
SHA256:
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- -- Todd Lyons, pp The Exim Maintainers.
- ----- End forwarded message -----
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