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CVE-2008-5619

Publication date 17 December 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
moodle 9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 1.8.2-1.2ubuntu2.1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 1.8.2-1ubuntu4.2
7.10 gutsy Ignored
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
roundcube 9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 0.1.1-7ubuntu0.1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 0.1~rc2-6ubuntu0.1
7.10 gutsy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

moodle recently copied roundcube's html2text due to their copy being non-free (1.8.2.dfsg-1)

Patch details

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Package Patch details
roundcube