Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : exim4 vulnerability (USN-3164-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 96336

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Bjoern Jacke discovered that Exim incorrectly handled DKIM keys. In certain configurations, private DKIM signing keys could be leaked to the log files.

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Solution

Update the affected exim4-daemon-heavy and / or exim4-daemon-light packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3164-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 96336

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3164-1.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2017

Updated: 9/18/2019

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 1.9

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exim4-daemon-heavy, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:exim4-daemon-light, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9963

USN: 3164-1