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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2007.0443 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][Debian] New libphp-phpmailer packages fix arbitrary shell command execution 20 June 2007 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: libphp-phpmailer Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2007-3215 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1315 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running PHPMailer check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1315-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff June 19th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : libphp-phpmailer Vulnerability : missing input validation Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-3215 Thor Larholm discovered that libphp-phpmailer, an email transfer class for PHP, performs insufficient input validition if configured to use Sendmail. This allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands. The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include libphp-phpmailer. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.73-2etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.73-4. We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer package. Upgrade Instructions - - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - - ------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libphp-phpmailer/libphp-phpmailer_1.73-2etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 657 90c98199f785cc36e195da8c68f59dc4 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libphp-phpmailer/libphp-phpmailer_1.73-2etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 2478 67871680e53fe86e23987c3d8818dbdb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libphp-phpmailer/libphp-phpmailer_1.73.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 68644 3a6ce5ff38090d6ca4881e31da00f623 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libphp-phpmailer/libphp-phpmailer_1.73-2etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 63716 5ee6556e537c92ad693677e24374184d These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGeD3kXm3vHE4uyloRAoTqAJ9VYJYYltHbBNNNH4qaeKsmPQHPwQCgi6tf OhfupGjS7aYoitGtApENq1Y= =nZnF - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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