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posted by takyon on Thursday March 08 2018, @09:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the you've-got-mailware dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:03PM (#649555)

    Ha! I avoided those stories as I expected the comments to be a dumpster fire, sounds like I was right. Maybe TMB is actually an FBI agent running a honeypot to catch the truly alt-wrong.