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general

source: exim4 (main)
version: 4.100-3
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: 4.100-1~bpo13+1
stable-p-u: 4.98.2-1+deb13u4
testing: 4.100-1
unstable: 4.100-3
NEW/experimental: 4.100-4

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]
4.100-1~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.100-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.100-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

exim4 (65 bugs: 0, 34, 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

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: 2026-09-05 18:02

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: 2026-08-28 18:30

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: 2026-09-08 11:30

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: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-09-08 11:30

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: 2026-09-08 11:00

lintian reports 3 warnings normal

Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-09-07 Last update: 2026-09-07 21:00

1 new commit since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit a2d2a845088179716ae2be5473563b33a50be8dd
Author: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Date:   Sun Sep 6 13:43:25 2026 +0200

    Add DEP-5 copyright file.
    
    Generated with
    cp debian/copyright.template debian/copyright && cme update dpkg-copyright
    
    This is partially broken due to #1135671 and #1139580.
    
    Retain old version in exim4-base's
    usr/share/doc/exim4-base/debian/copyright.readable.

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: 2026-09-06 Last update: 2026-09-06 13:34

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 10 debian patches available in version 4.100-3 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch 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: 2026-09-05 Last update: 2026-09-05 23:00

testing migrations

This package will soon be part of the auto-perl transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
excuses:
- Migrates after: pcre2
- Migration status for exim4 (4.100-1 to 4.100-3): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for altermime/0.3.10-14: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for courier/2.0.6-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cron/3.0pl1-209: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cvs-mailcommit/1.19-7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cyrus-imapd/3.12.3-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for diffmon/20020222-11: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for exim4/4.100-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for fwlogwatch/1.4-6: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for getmail6/6.20.01-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for inn2/2.7.4-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for iwatch/0.2.2-12: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for laniakea/0.1.1-5.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for logcheck/1.4.7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for logwatch/7.15-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for mime-construct/1.12+really1.11-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for mlmmj/1.6.0-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for offlineimap3/8.0.3+dfsg-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for python-imaplib2/3.6-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for renattach/1.2.4-8: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for request-tracker5/5.0.10+dfsg-3: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for resource-agents/1:4.18.0-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for sbuild/0.91.10: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for schleuder/5.0.1-6: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for swaks/20240103.0-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for sxid/4.20130802-8: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, armhf: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on i386 - info
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 3 of 5 days old
- ∙ ∙ Depends: exim4 pcre2 (not considered)
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/e/exim4.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
- Not considered

news

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[2026-09-05] Accepted exim4 4.100-3 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-08-29] Accepted exim4 4.100-1~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-08-29] exim4 4.100-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-08-22] Accepted exim4 4.100-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-08-20] exim4 4.100~RC3-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-08-15] Accepted exim4 4.100~RC3-2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-08-13] Accepted exim4 4.100~RC3-1 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-08-07] Accepted exim4 4.100~RC2-1 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-08-01] Accepted exim4 4.100~RC1-1 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2026-08-01] exim4 4.99.4-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[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)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 178 180
RC: 0
I&N: 86 88
M&W: 92
F&P: 0
patch: 16 17
help: 1

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ubuntu

[Information about Ubuntu for Debian Developers]

version: 4.99.4-1ubuntu1
18 bugs
patches for 4.99.4-1ubuntu1