exim4 - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: exim4 (main)
version: 4.99.4-2
maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Andreas Metzler [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.4
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 4.94.2-7+deb11u3
o-o-sec: 4.94.2-7+deb11u6
o-o-p-u: 4.94.2-7+deb11u3
oldstable: 4.96-15+deb12u10
old-sec: 4.96-15+deb12u10
old-bpo: 4.98.2-1~bpo12+1
old-p-u: 4.96-15+deb12u10
stable: 4.98.2-1+deb13u3
stable-sec: 4.98.2-1+deb13u4
stable-bpo: 4.99.4-2~bpo13+1
stable-p-u: 4.98.2-1+deb13u4
testing: 4.99.4-1
unstable: 4.99.4-2

versioned links

4.94.2-7+deb11u3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.94.2-7+deb11u6: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.96-15+deb12u10: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.98.2-1~bpo12+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.98.2-1+deb13u3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.98.2-1+deb13u4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.99.4-1~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.99.4-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.99.4-2~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.99.4-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

exim4 (64 bugs: 0, 33, 31, 0)
exim4-base (18 bugs: 0, 10, 8, 0)
exim4-config (74 bugs: 0, 30, 44, 0)
exim4-daemon-heavy (16 bugs: 0, 9, 7, 0)
exim4-daemon-light (4 bugs: 0, 3, 1, 0)
exim4-daemon-mod
exim4-dev
exim4-mod-cyrus-sasl
exim4-mod-ldap
exim4-mod-mysql
exim4-mod-pam
exim4-mod-perl
exim4-mod-postgresql
exim4-mod-spf
eximon4

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 4.99.5 high

A new upstream version 4.99.5 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-07-22 Last update: 2026-07-29 13:30

2 security issues in forky high

There are 2 open security issues in forky.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-66140: Exim before 4.99.5 allows directory traversal to access files outside of the spool area, and consequently gain privileges, because arguments related to queue-name are mishandled.
CVE-2026-66141: Exim before 4.99.5 allows .forward privilege escalation because force_command for a pipe transport is mishandled.

Created: 2026-07-23 Last update: 2026-07-25 04:30

4 security issues in bullseye high

There are 4 open security issues in bullseye.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-66140: Exim before 4.99.5 allows directory traversal to access files outside of the spool area, and consequently gain privileges, because arguments related to queue-name are mishandled.
CVE-2026-66141: Exim before 4.99.5 allows .forward privilege escalation because force_command for a pipe transport is mishandled.

2 issues postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2026-40686: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) In Exim before 4.99.2, when utf8 operators are enabled, there is an out-of-bounds read if large UTF-8 trailing characters are present (malformed UTF-8 header data). Information might be divulged within an error message produced during handling of an unrelated e-mail message.
CVE-2026-40687: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) In Exim before 4.99.2, when the SPA authentication driver is used with an adversarial SPA resource, there can be an out-of-bounds write that crashes the connection instance, or erroneous data processing that divulges data from uninitialized heap memory.

Created: 2026-07-23 Last update: 2026-07-25 04:30

2 security issues in bookworm high

There are 2 open security issues in bookworm.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-66140: Exim before 4.99.5 allows directory traversal to access files outside of the spool area, and consequently gain privileges, because arguments related to queue-name are mishandled.
CVE-2026-66141: Exim before 4.99.5 allows .forward privilege escalation because force_command for a pipe transport is mishandled.

Created: 2026-07-23 Last update: 2026-07-25 04:30

The package has not entered testing even though the delay is over normal

The package has not entered testing even though the 2-day delay is over. Check why.

Created: 2026-07-25 Last update: 2026-07-29 13:02

1 bug tagged help in the BTS normal

The BTS contains 1 bug tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with it.

Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2026-07-29 13:00

16 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 16 bugs (17 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2026-06-02 Last update: 2026-07-29 13:00

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that exim4 depends on which need a new maintainer are:

libspf2 (#1141676)
- Depends: libspf2-2t64 libspf2-2t64
- Build-Depends: libspf2-dev
docbook-xsl (#802370)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xsl

Created: 2023-09-01 Last update: 2026-07-29 11:00

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 4.99.5-1, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit f27e01bf6e5b3efe1bf04fcfb06db907cb26b6ba
Author: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Date:   Sat Jul 25 13:37:41 2026 +0200

    Use new upstream tarball with CVE fixes included, drop separate patches.

commit 76b7cc7629b59f99dfcedf2900cf227ab1eb5cb2
Author: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Date:   Sat Jul 25 10:24:43 2026 +0200

    Add CVE numbers to previous changelog entry.

https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/exim-team%2Fexim4 API request failed: 401 Unauthorized at /srv/qa.debian.org/data/vcswatch/vcswatch line 410.

Created: 2026-07-25 Last update: 2026-07-25 13:02

lintian reports 4 warnings normal

Lintian reports 4 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-04-30 Last update: 2026-04-30 18:32

debian/patches: 23 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 33 debian patches available in version 4.99.4-2 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

23 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2024-10-19 Last update: 2026-07-23 06:30

testing migrations

This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as auto-perl. Please avoid uploads unrelated to this transition, they would likely delay it and require supplementary work from the release managers. On the other hand, if your package has problems preventing it to migrate to testing, please fix them as soon as possible. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as perl-5.42. Please avoid uploads unrelated to this transition, they would likely delay it and require supplementary work from the release managers. On the other hand, if your package has problems preventing it to migrate to testing, please fix them as soon as possible. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
excuses:
- Migration status: Blocked. Can't migrate due to a non-migratable dependency. Check status below.
- Blocked by: perl
- Migration status for exim4 (4.99.4-1 to 4.99.4-2): BLOCKED: Cannot migrate due to another item, which is blocked (please check which dependencies are stuck)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Depends: exim4 perl (not considered)
- ∙ ∙ Invalidated by dependency
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/e/exim4.html
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cyrus-imapd/3.12.3-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), loong64: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for exim4/4.99.4-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, loong64: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for logwatch/7.14-5: amd64: Pass ♻, i386: Pass ♻, loong64: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Pass ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
- ∙ ∙ Required age reduced by 3 days because of autopkgtest
- ∙ ∙ Required age is not allowed to drop below 2 days
- ∙ ∙ 6 days old (needed 2 days)
- Not considered

news

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[2026-07-25] Accepted exim4 4.98.2-1+deb13u4 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-07-24] Accepted exim4 4.98.2-1+deb13u4 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-07-24] Accepted exim4 4.99.4-2~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-07-22] Accepted exim4 4.99.4-2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-06-13] Accepted exim4 4.99.4-1~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-06-12] exim4 4.99.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-06-05] Accepted exim4 4.94.2-7+deb11u6 (source) into oldoldstable-security (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2026-06-04] Accepted exim4 4.99.4-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-06-02] exim4 4.99.3-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-05-30] Accepted exim4 4.99.3-2~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-29] Accepted exim4 4.96-15+deb12u10 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-29] Accepted exim4 4.98.2-1+deb13u3 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-29] Accepted exim4 4.99.3-2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-29] Accepted exim4 4.98.2-1+deb13u3 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-29] Accepted exim4 4.96-15+deb12u10 (source) into oldstable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-29] exim4 4.99.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-05-25] Accepted exim4 4.99.3-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-14] exim4 4.99.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-05-13] Accepted exim4 4.99.2-2~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-12] Accepted exim4 4.96-15+deb12u9 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-12] Accepted exim4 4.98.2-1+deb13u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-12] Accepted exim4 4.94.2-7+deb11u5 (source) into oldoldstable-security (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2026-05-12] Accepted exim4 4.99.2-2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-12] Accepted exim4 4.98.2-1+deb13u2 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-12] Accepted exim4 4.96-15+deb12u9 (source) into oldstable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-07] Accepted exim4 4.99.2-1~bpo13+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-07] exim4 4.99.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-05-03] Accepted exim4 4.96-15+deb12u8 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-05-03] Accepted exim4 4.98.2-1+deb13u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2026-04-30] Accepted exim4 4.99.2-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 177 179
RC: 0
I&N: 85 87
M&W: 92
F&P: 0
patch: 16 17
help: 1

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