Number: AV19-216
Date: 30 September 2019
On 30 September 2019 Exim released version 4.92.3 of their message transfer agent (MTA) to address a vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-16928, which may allow for denial of service or remote code execution.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the Exim Security Advisory webpage at the link below and apply the necessary updates:
https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-16928.txt
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