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Bug 603756

Summary: www-apps/joomla: Remote code execution through embedded dev-php/PHPMailer (CVE-2016-10033)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: trivial CC: harold, oli.huber, proxy-maint, web-apps
Priority: Normal Keywords: PMASKED
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/668-20161205-phpmailer-security-advisory.html
Whiteboard: ~2 [ebuild+/cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 603752    

Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-12-26 13:21:51 UTC
It is suspected that this package is vulnerable to a security vulnerability via embedded dev-php/PHPMailer. As such we ask maintainers with packages suspected to be vulnerable to verify if the package is (or have been) affected. 

Please see the information contained in the tracker bug 603752.
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-12-26 18:29:53 UTC
(In reply to Harold Naparst from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603752#c1)
> I am the maintainer of joomla.  It is unknown whether joomla has bundled an
> affected version of PHPMailer.  Please remove joomla from portage until
> further notice.

Joomla upstream has already confirmed the problem and is preparing new releases.

The version in Gentoo repository (=www-apps/joomla-3.4.8) ships PHPMailer in v5.2.9, see https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/3.4.8/libraries/vendor/phpmailer/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php#L34.
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-05-17 18:41:20 UTC
# Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> (17 May 2017)
# Multiple unpatched security vulnerabilities (see bug #603756, #610696, #612650 ...)
# Removal in 30 days.
www-apps/joomla
Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2017-06-17 08:41:15 UTC
commit fe7d7445faf698a716e9f542fdc18b771fa42b6a
Author:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: Sat Jun 17 10:29:26 2017
Commit:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: Sat Jun 17 10:39:58 2017

    www-apps/joomla: Remove last-rited pkg