{"id":173468,"date":"2023-10-04T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/patch-confusion-for-critical-exim-bug-puts-email-servers-at-risk-again"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T20:22:47","slug":"patch-confusion-for-critical-exim-bug-puts-email-servers-at-risk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/patch-confusion-for-critical-exim-bug-puts-email-servers-at-risk-again","title":{"rendered":"Patch Confusion for Critical Exim Bug Puts Email Servers at Risk \u2014 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patch-confusion-for-critical-exim-bug-puts-email-servers-at-risk-again2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good news is, so far, no exploits appear to have been released for the latest vulnerabilities, says Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness for Trend Micro\u2019s Zero Day Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no indication regarding the potential exploitability of these bugs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are not aware of any active exploits using these bugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exim is the most popular mail transfer agent on the Internet, accounting for 59% \u2014 or 253,000 \u2014 of identifiable mail servers on the Internet, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityspace.com\/s_survey\/data\/man.202302\/mxsurvey.html\" target=\"_blank\">a March 1 scan of MX servers<\/a>. Postfix, another open source mail transfer agent, is the second most popular, with 149,000 detectable installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news is, so far, no exploits appear to have been released for the latest vulnerabilities, says Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness for Trend Micro\u2019s Zero Day Initiative. \u201cWe have no indication regarding the potential exploitability of these bugs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are not aware of any active exploits using these bugs.\u201d Exim [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}