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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2009.1556 New php-mail packages fix insufficient input sanitising 24 November 2009 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: php-mail Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 5 Debian GNU/Linux 4 Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote/Unauthenticated Modify Arbitrary Files -- Remote/Unauthenticated Read-only Data Access -- Remote/Unauthenticated Resolution: Patch/Upgrade Reference: ASB-2009.1140 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1938 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1938-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Steffen Joeris November 23, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : php-mail Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : No CVE id yet It was discovered that php-mail, a PHP PEAR module for sending email, has insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to obtain sensitive data from the system that uses php-mail. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.14-1+lenny1. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.6-2+etch1. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.14-2. We recommend that you upgrade your php-mail packages. 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 - - ------------------------------- Debian (oldstable) - - ------------------ Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 13702 47b38a06acdec73c4d8c01f9d7e5e8e2 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6-2+etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 3310 64425237844fed79a4b71aa34ccb0cee http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6-2+etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 689 93c32b0cb655191ac6edb48013d18921 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6-2+etch1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 17884 a2abda15da9ddab5f1590198cc852b3f Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny - - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) - - --------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14-1+lenny1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1258 6d361bf9406e9195813b4396bb7d5c13 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 17537 e50da58b6b787b3903ce4d07dc791bb2 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14-1+lenny1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 4105 a8154d9e86e98a591dfc9e84210ce163 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14-1+lenny1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 21904 d5184514df44b348582071748e855c32 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 v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksKPD4ACgkQ62zWxYk/rQelCQCfSj7eMrmJHQfKyjU3uQ3RVH89 8EwAnjtlML3vVJ0bh4icip/4NQWuRZHK =u2Qx - -----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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