metadata/glsa/glsa-200705-16.xml

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<glsa id="200705-16">
  <title>PhpWiki: Remote execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in PhpWiki allowing for the remote
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">phpwiki</product>
  <announced>May 17, 2007</announced>
  <revised>May 17, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>174451</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-apps/phpwiki" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.3.10-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.10-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    PhpWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Harold Hallikainen has reported that the Upload page fails to properly
    check the extension of a file.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could upload a specially crafted PHP file to the
    vulnerable server, resulting in the execution of arbitrary PHP code
    with the privileges of the user running PhpWiki.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PhpWiki users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apps/phpwiki-1.3.10-r3&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2024">CVE-2007-2024</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2025">CVE-2007-2025</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 10 May 2007 13:26:06 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 11 May 2007 14:10:41 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 14 May 2007 18:47:51 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>