Detections
Analytics

Fedora 12 : php-pear-Mail-1.1.14-5.fc12 (2009-12395)

high Nessus Plugin ID 42939

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix CVE-2009-4023, CVE-2009-4111 PEAR's Mail class did not properly escape content of mail header fields, when using the sendmail backend.
A remote attacker could send an email message, with specially crafted headers to local user, leading to disclosure of content and potentially, to modification of arbitrary system file, once the email message was processed by the PEAR's Mail class.

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

Solution

Update the affected php-pear-Mail package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540842

http://www.nessus.org/u?8b7eb07d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 42939

File Name: fedora_2009-12395.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/1/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-pear-mail, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4023

BID: 37081

CWE: 94

FEDORA: 2009-12395