Exim security release

Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas vince at unsane.co.uk
Fri May 7 15:49:26 UTC 2021



On 07/05/2021 16:41, P via freebsd-security wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, May 6, 2021 2:41 AM, Gordon Tetlow <gordon at tetlows.org> wrote:
> 
>> The port maintainer (CC'd) has already included an update for the new
>> Exim release. It should be available in the port system already. Pkg's
>> are usually built a couple of times a week.
>>
>> Gordon
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to reply, and apologies for my delay in
> getting back to this.
> 
> I was looking here [0] and saw the last activity still points to the
> +fixes branch of November 2020, which is what prompted my question. If
> you don't mind, where did you see the included update so I know where
> to look the next time.
> 
> I also did pkg update yesterday, including exim-postgresql. exim -bV
> now shows v4.94.2 which seems to match the patched version from the
> Exim mailing list. But not sure how to confirm that either.

I may be wrong but I suspect https://svnweb.FreeBSD.org isnt valid any
more since the move to git.

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/mail/exim/Makefile
shows 'update to 4.94.2 security release' 3 days ago.

Vince

> 
> Appreciate the help!
> P
> 
> [0]
> https://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/mail/exim
> 
>>
>> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 7:02 PM Patrick via freebsd-security
>> freebsd-security at freebsd.org wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, and apologies if this is not the right place to be asking this
>>> question.
>>> A major security release was announced yesterday by the Exim dev team
>>> [0]. I see some Linux distros have already released patched versions of
>>> Exim in their package repos. Is there any chance the FreeBSD Exim port
>>> will be updated to reflect these patches?
>>> Thanks,
>>> P
>>> [0]
>>> https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20210504.134007.ce022df3.en.html
>>>
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