• Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5956-1

    From Security Bot@2:250/1 to All on Wed Nov 6 16:22:00 2024


    Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5956-1

    Ubuntu Security Notice 5956-1 - Dawid Golunski discovered that PHPMailer
    was not properly escaping user input data used as arguments to functions executed by the system shell. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. It was discovered that PHPMailer was not properly escaping characters in certain fields of the code_generator.php example code. An attacker could possibly
    use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. This issue was
    only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.

    https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171366/USN-5956-1.txt

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