-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 346-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman July 8th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : phpsysinfo Vulnerability : directory traversal Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0536 Albert Puigsech Galicia <ripe@7a69ezine.org> reported that phpsysinfo, a web-based program to display status information about the system, contains two vulnerabilities which could allow local files to be read, or arbitrary PHP code to be executed, under the privileges of the web server process (usually www-data). These vulnerabilities require access to a writable directory on the system in order to be exploited.
Created attachment 19141 [details, diff] Patch to disallow '..' in template and language filenames This patch is an excerpt from the patch collection provided by Frederik Schueler here: http://users.idf.de/~fs/debian/phpsysinfo_2.1-1.diff.gz . The "debian/" additions and kernel 2.{5,6} memory display fix were removed from the referenced patch as the do not address this particular bug.
CVS updated to -r1 with patch from offical debian source.
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