Advisories » MGASA-2016-0430

Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Dec 2016
Modification date: 29 Dec 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-9920

Description

Users can execute commands on the server by writing e-mails, due to
insufficient sanitation of the from field when calling PHP's mail()
function (CVE-2016-9920).

Note that only roundcubemail installations that don't have an SMTP
server configured for mail delivery are affected.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19920
• https://blog.ripstech.com/2016/roundcube-command-execution-via-email/
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/17
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9920

SRPMS

5/core

• roundcubemail-1.0.9-1.1.mga5