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CVE-2010-4345

Published: Dec 14, 2010

Modified: Oct 22, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate configuration file with a directive that contains arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

References

43128
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
SUSE-SA:2010:059
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
VU#758489
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_CERT-VN
ADV-2011-0364
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
RHSA-2011:0153
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
45341
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
42930
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
42576
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
43243
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
1024859
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
DSA-2154
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
ADV-2011-0245
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
ADV-2011-0135
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
USN-1060-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
ADV-2010-3204
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
DSA-2131
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
ADV-2010-3171
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
[oss-security] 20101210 Exim remote root
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST

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