[DRUPAL-SA-2006-004] Drupal 4.6.6 / 4.5.8 fixes mail header injection issue

[Uwe Hermann <uwe () hermann-uwe de>]

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Drupal security advisory                                  DRUPAL-SA-2006-004
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Advisory ID:    DRUPAL-SA-2006-004
Project:        Drupal core
Date:           2006-03-13
Security risk:  moderately critical
Impact:         security bypass
Where:          from remote
Vulnerability:  mail header injection attack
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Description
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Linefeeds and carriage returns were not being stripped from email headers,
raising the possibility of bogus headers being inserted into outgoing email.
This could lead to Drupal sites being used to send unwanted email.

Versions affected
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All Drupal versions before 4.6.6.

Solution
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If you are running Drupal 4.5.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.5.8.
If you are running Drupal 4.6.x then upgrade to Drupal 4.6.6.

Reported by
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Norrin, kbahey

Contact
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The security contact for Drupal can be reached at security () drupal org
or using the form at http://drupal.org/contact.
More information is available from http://drupal.org/security or from
our security RSS feed http://drupal.org/security/rss.xml.


// Uwe Hermann, on behalf of the Drupal Security Team.
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