Debian: DSA-3751-1 Important: Libxml2 Denial of Service Vulnerability
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January 3, 2017
A functionally regression was discovered in some specific usage scenarios of PHPMailer following the security update of DSA-3750
Summary
Dawid Golunski discovered that PHPMailer, a popular library to send
email from PHP applications, allowed a remote attacker to execute
code if they were able to provide a crafted Sender address.
Note that for this issue also CVE-2016-10045 was assigned, which is a
regression in the original patch proposed for CVE-2016-10033. Because
the origial patch was not applied in Debian, Debian was not vulnerable
to CVE-2016-10045.
For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.2.9+dfsg-2+deb8u3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.2.14+dfsg-2.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: libphp-phpmailer
CVE ID: CVE-2016-10033
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