Bug 218752 (CVE-2008-1937) – www-apps/moinmoin <1.6.3 ACL/superuser privilege escalation (CVE-2008-1937)

• Product: Gentoo Security
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Johan Marcusson 2008-04-21 17:46:56 UTC]

http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes
http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/AclHierarchicPageAclSupercededByAclRightsAfter

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/AclHierarchicPageAclSupercededByAclRightsAfter

[Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-23 16:09:43 UTC]

* Security fix: a check in the user form processing was not working as
  expected, leading to a major ACL and superuser priviledge escalation
  problem. If you use ACL entries other than "Known:" or "All:" and/or
  a non-empty superuser list, you need to urgently install this upgrade. 

http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.6/rev/f405012e67af

[Comment 2 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2008-04-25 12:00:13 UTC]

in cvs

[Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-04-25 21:02:45 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=www-apps/moinmoin-1.6.3
Target keywords : "amd64 ppc release sparc x86"

[Comment 4 Markus Meier 2008-04-26 11:51:21 UTC]

amd64/x86 stable

[Comment 5 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2008-04-28 17:03:53 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 6 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2008-04-28 18:11:06 UTC]

sparc stable

[Comment 7 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2008-04-29 06:21:47 UTC]

Fixed in release snapshot.

[Comment 8 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) 2008-05-06 15:17:11 UTC]

GLSA vote, I vote YES.

[Comment 9 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2008-05-07 22:43:37 UTC]

YES too, request filed.

[Comment 10 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) 2008-05-11 13:28:54 UTC]

GLSA 200805-09