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Fedora 24: 2017-c3dc97e1e1 Critical Risk: PHP-PHPMailer Local File Exposure

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent security patch for php-PHPMailer mitigates potential local file exposure due to unsanitized input. Apply update immediately!
**Version 5.2.22** (January 5th 2017) * **SECURITY** Fix [CVE-2017-5223](https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5223), local file disclosure vulnerability if con...

Summary

Full Featured Email Transfer Class for PHP. PHPMailer features:

* Supports emails digitally signed with S/MIME encryption!

* Supports emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs

* Works on any platform.

* Supports Text & HTML emails.

* Embedded image support.

* Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read

HTML email.

* Flexible debugging.

* Custom mail headers.

* Redundant SMTP servers.

* Support for 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encoding.

* Word wrap.

* Multiple fs, string, and binary attachments (those from database,

string, etc).

* SMTP authentication.

* Tested on multiple SMTP servers: Sendmail, qmail, Postfix, Gmail,

Imail, Exchange, etc.

* Good documentation, many examples included in download.

* It's swift, small, and simple.

Update Information:

**Version 5.2.22** (January 5th 2017) * **SECURITY** Fix [CVE-2017-5223](https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-5223), local file disclosure vulnerability if content passed to `msgHTML()` is sourced from unfiltered user input. Reported by Yongxiang Li of Asiasecurity. The fix for this means that calls to `msgHTML()` without a `$basedir` will not import images with relative URLs, and relative URLs containing `..` will be ignored. * Add simple contact form example * Emoji in test content ---- **Version 5.2.21** (December 28th 2016) * Fix missed number update in version file - no functional changes ---- **Version 5.2.20** (December 28th 2016) * **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10045 please update now! Thanks to [Dawid Golunski]() and Paul Buonopane (Zenexer). ---- ** Version 5.2.19** (December 26th 2016) * Minor cleanup ** Version 5.2.18** (December 24th 2016) * **SECURITY** Critical security update for CVE-2016-10033 please update now...

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1409489 - CVE-2016-10033 phpmailer: Parameter injection via mail() function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409489

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade php-PHPMailer' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: php-PHPMailer
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 5.2.22
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: PHP email transport class with a lot of features

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