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CVE-2019-15846 fix for CentOS?

Posted: 2019/09/07 12:02:55
by peteroverethernet
Hi folks,

another critical security issue hits also CentOS systems as reported on: https://www.exim.org/static/doc/securit ... -15846.txt

The issue is already known by Red Hat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-15846 but as we all still wait for the dovecot fix which has also not been patched by Red Hat yet I would like to ask if someone knows alternative repos from the official ones to update Exim to 4.92.2 as soon as possible?

Trevor already mentioned that the CentOS team can not provide update packages before the Red Hat packages are released, so this will consume some time and no one knows if there is an exploit already available.

Regards

Peter

Re: CVE-2019-15846 fix for CentOS?

Posted: 2019/09/07 13:02:27
by TrevorH
This one is different since we do not supply exim at all. It is in the third party yum repo: EPEL. You can look in the Fedora EPEL section of bugzilla.redhat.com for bug reports about this (I expect there to be a bz for this already) and if there isn't one there, raise one.

Re: CVE-2019-15846 fix for CentOS?

Posted: 2019/09/07 13:03:39
by avij
Yes, it's in EPEL. See the relevant update. If yum update does not give you an updated exim, try with yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing. The same instructions apply for CentOS 6.

Re: CVE-2019-15846 fix for CentOS?

Posted: 2019/09/07 13:05:44
by TrevorH
It's not in epel-testing yet (as of about 2 minutes ago at 13:02 GMT)

Re: CVE-2019-15846 fix for CentOS?

Posted: 2019/09/07 13:09:24
by avij
Right, looks like it's still on its way to mirrors, so it may take a while.

Re: CVE-2019-15846 fix for CentOS?

Posted: 2019/09/07 15:30:59
by peteroverethernet
Thank you guys. I´ve tried it through epel-testing but nothing appeared so this is why I was confused. You are right it´s already on status pending accordingly to https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates ... fb4fca003a

Re: CVE-2019-15846 fix for CentOS?

Posted: 2019/09/09 00:29:59
by TrevorH
Looks like it's gone straight to EPEL itself

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exim.x86_64                                            4.92.2-1.el7                                             epel