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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4351-1 libphp-phpmailer -- security update

Date Reported:

07 Dec 2018

Affected Packages:

libphp-phpmailer

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 913912.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-19296.

More information:

It was discovered that PHPMailer, a library to send email from PHP applications, is prone to a PHP object injection vulnerability, potentially allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.14+dfsg-2.3+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer packages.

For the detailed security status of libphp-phpmailer please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libphp-phpmailer