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exim: Fix for CVE-2017-16943 RCE vuln #32101

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Motivation for this change

See https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/23069 and http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/25/1

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option build-use-sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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@GrahamcOfBorg GrahamcOfBorg added 10.rebuild-darwin: 0 This PR does not cause any packages to rebuild on Darwin 10.rebuild-linux: 1-10 labels Nov 27, 2017
@adisbladis adisbladis merged commit d276fba into NixOS:master Nov 27, 2017
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Backported to 17.09 in 814f3a6

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orivej commented Nov 27, 2017

You should use fetchpatch on https://git.exim.org/exim.git/patch/4e6ae6235c68de243b1c2419027472d7659aa2b4 instead of commiting directly.

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@orivej That one did not apply because of the path src/src (should be src).

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orivej commented Nov 27, 2017

fetchpatch { stripLen = 1; should fix that.

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