Thanks to LowEndTalk administrator emeritus @jar for alerting the community to a range of exim vulnerabilities published by Qualys. There is a family of both local and remote vulnerabilities.
tl;dr: patch your exim installs. 4.94.2 is the minimum you should be running. Not all distros don’t updates available yet.
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