[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: exim-4.76-9.fc17
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17044
2012-10-28 00:07:20
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Name : exim
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 4.76
Release : 9.fc17
URL : http://www.exim.org/
Summary : The exim mail transfer agent
Description :
Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of
Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is
freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. In
style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are more
general. There is a great deal of flexibility in the way mail can be
routed, and there are extensive facilities for checking incoming
mail. Exim can be installed in place of sendmail, although the
configuration of exim is quite different to that of sendmail.
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Update Information:
This update protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit, CVE-2012-5671.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Oct 26 2012 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad(a)redhat.com> - 4.76-9
- Backported fix for CVE-2012-5671
Resolves: CVE-2012-5671
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #870347 - CVE-2012-5671 exim: Heap-buffer overflow in DNS decode logic used
for DKIM [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870347
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update exim' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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