• 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

Description

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

All Drupal versions before 4.6.6.

Solution

  • 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

Norrin, kbahey

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