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Scientists Uncover the Surprising Source of Strange Clouds Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy is creating a series of enigmatic gas clouds, compact clumps that help feed the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

New critical Exim mailer flaw allows remote code execution

A critical vulnerability affecting certain configurations of the Exim open-source mail transfer agent could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Identified as CVE-2026–45185, the security issue impacts some Exim versions before 4.99.3 that use the default GNU Transport Layer Security (GnuTLS) library for secure communication. It is a user-after-free (UAF) flaw triggered during the TLS shutdown while handling BDAT chunked SMTP traffic.

Exim frees a TLS transfer buffer but later continues using stale callback references that can write data into the freed memory region, which can lead to unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE).

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