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CVE-2008-5619

Published: 17 December 2008

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.

Notes

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

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
moodle
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper Not vulnerable
(didn't get roundcube's html2text)
gutsy Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
hardy
Released (1.8.2-1ubuntu4.2)
intrepid
Released (1.8.2-1.2ubuntu2.1)
jaunty Not vulnerable
(1.9.4.dfsg-0ubuntu1)
upstream
Released (1.8.2.dfsg-2)
roundcube
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper Does not exist

gutsy Not vulnerable

hardy
Released (0.1~rc2-6ubuntu0.1)
intrepid
Released (0.1.1-7ubuntu0.1)
jaunty Not vulnerable
(0.1.1-10)
upstream
Released (0.1.1-9)
Patches:
debdiff: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/roundcube/+bug/316550