Debian DLA-363-1 : libphp-phpmailer security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87268

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a header injection vulnerability in libphp-phpmailer, am email transfer library for PHP.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in libphp-phpmailer version 5.1-1+deb6u11.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected libphp-phpmailer package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/12/msg00004.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/libphp-phpmailer

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87268

File Name: debian_DLA-363.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp-phpmailer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8476