Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1938-1 php-mail -- programming error

Date Reported:
23 Nov 2009
Affected Packages:
php-mail
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
No other external database security references currently available.
More information:

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 oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.6-2+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.14-1+lenny1.

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6-2+etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6-2+etch1.dsc
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.6-2+etch1_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14-1+lenny1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14-1+lenny1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-mail/php-mail_1.1.14-1+lenny1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.