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CVE-2016-1531

Published: 2 March 2016

Exim before 4.86.2, when installed setuid root, allows local users to gain privileges via the perl_startup argument.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
patches introduce behaviour change that my break existing
setups
must also ship two follow-up patches:
1- Don't issue env warning if env is empty
2- Store the initial working directory

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.0