exim -- local privilege escalation

Description:

exim.org reports:

CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to arbitrary files.

References:

• CVE name CVE-2011-0017
• URL: <ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.74>

Affects:

• exim <4.74
• exim-ldap <4.74
• exim-ldap2 <4.74
• exim-mysql <4.74
• exim-postgresql <4.74
• exim-sa-exim <4.74

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