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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3416-1 (libphp-phpmailer - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Takeshi Terada discovered a vulnerability in PHPMailer, a PHP library for email transfer, used by many CMSs. The library accepted email addresses and SMTP commands containing line breaks, which can be abused by an attacker to inject messages.
Affected Software
Affected Software
libphp-phpmailer on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 5.1-1.1. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.9+dfsg-2+deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.14+dfsg-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer packages.