A bug in an obscure but widely used email program may be putting as many as 400,000 servers around the world at risk of serious attack until they install an update.
The flaw—which is in all releases of the Exim message transfer agent except for version 4.90.1—opens servers to attacks that can execute malicious code, researchers who discovered the vulnerability warned in an advisory published Tuesday. The buffer overflow vulnerability, which is indexed as CVE-2018-6789, resides in base64 decode function. By sending specially manipulated input to a server running Exim, attackers may be able to remotely execute code.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:59PM
Uhh, this isn't news, the embargo over the CVE expired quite some time ago and was patched by major distros in early February: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00034.html [debian.org]
In similarly dated news, Rob Porter resigns today after abuse allegations arise and the White House sent a letter to the House Intellegence Committee telling them that Trump will not declassify the Democrats memo without changes.