Debian DLA-817-1 : libphp-phpmailer security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 97029

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was a local file disclosure vulnerability in libphp-phpmailer, a email transfer class for PHP, where insufficient parsing of HTML messages could potentially be used by attacker to read a local file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this issue has been fixed in libphp-phpmailer version 5.1-1.3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected libphp-phpmailer package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 97029

File Name: debian_DLA-817.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/7/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp-phpmailer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5223

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