Re: [exim] CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker c…

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Autor: Phillip Carroll
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Para: exim-users
Asunto: Re: [exim] CVE-2019-15846: Exim - local or remote attacker can execute programs with root privileges
my configuration has had something similar for years. Is there any
significant difference?

acl_check_mail:
   # deny any mail without helo name
   deny    message = HELO required before MAIL
           condition = ${if eq{$sender_helo_name}{} {1}}


(Yours obviously simpler to read)

On 9/6/2019 6:16 PM, Phil Pennock via Exim-users wrote:
> On 2019-09-06 at 22:04 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users wrote:
>> The HELO ACL doesn't help either, as the first EHLO comes before
>> STARTTLS, and the second EHLO doesn't have to come, the client may send
>
> Oh pox. My memory is going. I hadn't realized that my protection
> against this comes from long-standing local configuration, not Exim
> defaulting to enforcing this:
>
> acl_check_mail:
>    deny    message       = 503 Bad sequence of commands - must send HELO/EHLO first
>            condition     = ${if !def:sender_helo_name}

>
> If anyone wants to protect against stupidity: I've been using that guard
> for "longer than the five years that the current mail-server is running"
> and I'm not going diving through git history to find when it was
> introduced to my older server.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, that has never blocked legitimate mail.
> Everyone does EHLO after STARTTLS.
>
> Exim drops pre-TLS sender_helo_name after negotiating TLS. This is
> required by RFC 3207 (section 4.2) but not explicitly mentioned in the
> Exim Spec, AFAICT.
>
> -Phil
>