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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| exim / exim | - | 4.72.x |
| opensuse / opensuse | 11.1 | 11.1.x |
| opensuse / opensuse | 11.2 | 11.2.x |
| opensuse / opensuse | 11.3 | 11.3.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 5.0 | 5.0.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 10.10 | 10.10.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 9.10 | 9.10.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | 8.04.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | 10.04.x |
| canonical / ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | 6.06.x |