Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3750-1 libphp-phpmailer -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 31 Dec 2016
- Affected Packages:
- libphp-phpmailer
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 849365.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-10033. - More information:
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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+deb8u2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.14+dfsg-2.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer packages.