Reports that millions of servers running the mail transport agent Exim are being attacked through a recently announced vulnerability are unreliable, a senior official from Qualys, the company that discovered the vulnerability, says.
Mail servers running the Exim mail transport agent are being exploited, with the attackers using a vulnerability disclosed a few days ago to run arbitrary commands as root, a security practitioner has warned.
Anyone who has received an email in his or her lifetime has probably made use of Eric Allman's code at some time or the other.