Millions of Exim mail servers exposed to zero-day RCE attacks

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A critical zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software can let unauthenticated attackers gain remote code execution (RCE) on Internet-exposed servers.
Found by an anonymous security researcher and disclosed through Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the security bug (CVE-2023-42115) is due to an Out-of-bounds Write weakness found in the SMTP service.
 

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