ALERT — New 21Nails Exim Bugs Expose Millions of Email Servers to Hacking

From thehackernews.com

The maintainers of Exim have released patches to remediate as many as 21 security vulnerabilities in its software that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root privileges.

Collectively named ’21Nails,’ the flaws include 11 vulnerabilities that require local access to the server and 10 other weaknesses that could be exploited remotely. The issues were discovered by Qualys and reported to Exim on Oct. 20, 2020.

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