Bug#818897: Exim4 change CWD string to /

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2016-04-20 Roman Bulakh <bulah.roman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2016-03-27 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:
>> On 2016-03-21 Roman Bulakh <bulah.roman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Package: exim4
>>> Version: 4.80-7+deb7u2

>>> After updates exim to version 4.80-7+deb7u2 exim.c change CWD dir to /
>>> on startup.
[...]
>> /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/changelog.Debian.gz
>> exim4 (4.80-7+deb7u2) wheezy-security; urgency=high
>>   * 88_CVE-2016-1531.diff:
>> [...]
>>     + Exim changes it's working directory to / right after startup.
>> [...]
>>   * 89_01_only_warn_on_nonempty_environment.diff,
>>     89_02_Store-the-initial-working-directory.diff: Upstream followups on the
>>     CVE fix (Thanks, Heiko Schlittermann!):
>> [...]
>>     + Store the initial working directory and make it available in the new
>>       expansion variable $initial_cwd.


>> Sadly I made an error with the latter patch, but it is going to be fixed
>> in the next point release. See <https://bugs.debian.org/818225>, you can
>> already grab 4.80-7+deb7u3 directly from the mirrors.
>> http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/
[...]

> Problem is not fixed. I have exim 4.80-7+deb7u3 but cwd still "cwd=/"

Please re-read my comment. I did not say exim stopped changing to / but
"Store the initial working directory and make it available in the new
expansion variable $initial_cwd.".

You'll need to change your config.

cu Andreas
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