MGASA-2015-0484

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    MGASA-2015-0484

    Published: 24 Dec 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8476

    Summary: Updated php-phpmailer packages fix CVE-2015-8476

    Details: Updated php-phpmailer package fixes security vulnerability: Takeshi Terada discovered that PHPMailer accepted addresses containing line breaks. This is valid in RFC5322, but allowing such addresses resulted in invalid RFC5321 SMTP commands, permitting a kind of message injection attack (CVE-2015-8476).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0484.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17319, https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.14, http://lwn.net/Alerts/667302/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: php-phpmailer

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/php-phpmailer?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.2.14-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High