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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703416
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3416-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libphp-phpmailer' package(s) announced via the DSA-3416-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'libphp-phpmailer' package(s) announced via the DSA-3416-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
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 5.1-1.1.

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.

Affected Software/OS:
'libphp-phpmailer' package(s) on Debian 7, Debian 8.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8476
BugTraq ID: 78619
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78619
Debian Security Information: DSA-3416 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3416
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177139.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177130.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/04/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/05/1
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2015 Greenbone AG

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