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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 22:59:12 -0500
From: Phil Pennock <oss-security-phil@...dhuis.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: RCE in Exim reported
In Post-Thanksgiving mail-catchup, I see that the Exim Project was
gifted with a couple of surprises in our public bugtracker on Thursday
morning. Complete with proof-of-concept small Python script.
I've requested CVEs, don't have them yet.
My mail to our announce list:
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20171125.034842.d1d75cac.en.html
Remote code execution in the first vulnerability, getting execution as
the Exim run-time user.
A complete mitigation is to disable advertising the CHUNKING extension,
in which case an attempt to use the BDAT verb should result in:
503 BDAT command used when CHUNKING not advertised
The instructions I wrote in the mail to our announce-list, were:
} With immediate effect, please apply this workaround: if you are running
} Exim 4.88 or newer (4.89 is current, 4.90 is upcoming) then in the main
} section of your Exim configuration, set:
}
} chunking_advertise_hosts =
}
} That's an empty value, nothing on the right of the equals. This
} disables advertising the ESMTP CHUNKING extension, making the BDAT verb
} unavailable and avoids letting an attacker apply the logic.
Chunking support was introduced with Exim 4.88; the current release is
4.89, 4.90 is in RC series now, it looks like a 2-line fix (written by
Jeremy Harris) is probably right for the first issue.
Public bugtracker links:
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2199
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2201
-Phil
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