Debian DSA-3416-1 : libphp-phpmailer - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87331

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the libphp-phpmailer packages.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87331

File Name: debian_DSA-3416.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/14/2015

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:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8476

DSA: 3416

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