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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3416-1 (libphp-phpmailer - security update)

2015-12-1300:00:00
Copyright (c) 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net
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0.003 Low

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63.4%

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.

# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_3416.nasl 6609 2017-07-07 12:05:59Z cfischer $
# Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3416-1 using nvtgen 1.0
# Script version: 1.0
#
# Author:
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#
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# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
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#
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if(description)
{
    script_id(703416);
    script_version("$Revision: 6609 $");
    script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8476");
    script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 3416-1 (libphp-phpmailer - security update)");
    script_tag(name: "last_modification", value: "$Date: 2017-07-07 14:05:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
    script_tag(name: "creation_date", value: "2015-12-13 00:00:00 +0100 (Sun, 13 Dec 2015)");
    script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
    script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
    script_tag(name: "solution_type", value: "VendorFix");
    script_tag(name: "qod_type", value: "package");

    script_xref(name: "URL", value: "http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3416.html");


    script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

    script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net");
    script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
    script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
    script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
    script_tag(name: "affected",  value: "libphp-phpmailer on Debian Linux");
    script_tag(name: "insight",   value: "Many PHP developers utilize email in
their code. The only PHP function that supports this is the mail() function.
However, it does not expose any of the popular features that many email clients
use nowadays like HTML-based emails and attachments. There are two proprietary
development tools out there that have all the functionality built into
easy to use classes: AspEmail(tm) and AspMail. Both of these
programs are COM components only available on Windows.");
    script_tag(name: "solution",  value: "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.");
    script_tag(name: "summary",   value: "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.");
    script_tag(name: "vuldetect", value: "This check tests the installed software
version using the apt package manager.");
    exit(0);
}

include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libphp-phpmailer", ver:"5.1-1.1", rls_regex:"DEB7.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libphp-phpmailer", ver:"5.2.9+dfsg-2+deb8u1", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}