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Debian DSA-1315-1 : libphp-phpmailer - missing input validation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25581

Synopsis

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

Description

Thor Larholm discovered that libphp-phpmailer, an email transfer class for PHP, performs insufficient input validition if configured to use Sendmail. This allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include libphp-phpmailer.

Solution

Upgrade the libphp-phpmailer package.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.73-2etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1315

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25581

File Name: debian_DSA-1315.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/27/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.55

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp-phpmailer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/21/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3215

DSA: 1315