Bug 727564

Summary:	mail-mta/exim-4.94 pam expansion fails on tainted data
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stefan Schmiedl <s>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2587
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Schmiedl 2020-06-08 18:54:51 UTC

After updating exim from 4.93.0.4 to 4.94, PLAIN authentication fails with the error message "Taint mismatch, string_nextinlist: auth_call_pam 158"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install exim 4.94
2. Try to authenticat with PLAIN against pam




I concur with the posting in the arch bug tracker
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66894
and with the final remark in https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2587#c2

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2020-06-08 18:59:25 UTC

Please run `emerge --sync` and try -r1.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727310 ***

Comment 2 Stefan Schmiedl 2020-06-08 19:20:30 UTC

it works.

TIL that this bugzilla by default only shows open bugs.

Thanks.