ubuntu · CVE-2016-10074

Quick triage

Priority: medium Published: 2016-12-30 19:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:53:34 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-10074 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libphp-swiftmailer), 23 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 15, ignored 4, DNE 3, needed 1.

Description:

The mail transport (aka Swift_Transport_MailTransport) in Swift Mailer before 5.4.5 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code via a \" (backslash double quote) in a crafted e-mail address in the (1) From, (2) ReturnPath, or (3) Sender header.

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