Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libphp-phpmailer announced via advisory DSA 1315-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201315-1
Insight
Thor Larholm discovered that libphp-phpmailer, an email transfer class for PHP, performs insufficient input validition if configured to use Sendmail. This allows the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include libphp-phpmailer.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.73-2etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.73-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-3215 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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