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

Date13 Dec 2015

CategoryDebian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted ByLinuxSecurity Advisories

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.


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3416-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                            Luciano Bello
December 13, 2015                     https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : libphp-phpmailer
CVE ID         : CVE-2015-8476
Debian Bug     : 807265

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.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.1-1+deb6u11.

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.

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these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
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