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Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world thinks is vulnerable.

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:26:08PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Shodan [1] reports loads of vulnerable [2] servers running pre 4.92
> versions of Exim, those include Debian Exim variants reporting 4.89
> .... even for fully patched servers.

General answer:

https://www.debian.org/security/faq
(especially <https://www.debian.org/security/faq#oldversion>)

For this particular issue:

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4456
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-10149

And the entry in the Debian changelog for the stretch package:

=============================================================================
exim4 (4.89-2+deb9u4) stretch-security; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team.
  * Fix remote command execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)

 -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>  Tue, 28 May 2019 22:13:55 +0200
=============================================================================

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Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world thinks  is vulnerable. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-20 15:30 +0200
  Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-20 15:50 +0200
  Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-20 15:50 +0200
    Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-20 20:50 +0200
      Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-20 21:00 +0200
        Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-20 21:50 +0200
          Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-20 22:00 +0200
            Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-20 22:40 +0200
              Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-21 00:00 +0200
                Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-21 00:00 +0200
              Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-21 08:10 +0200
                Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-21 13:20 +0200
                Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-21 21:00 +0200
  Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-20 16:00 +0200
    Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-20 20:20 +0200
      Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-06-20 21:50 +0200
        Re: Exim latest update reports to world as 4.89, which the world  thinks is vulnerable. Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-06-22 21:10 +0200

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