GLSA 200411-10: Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

A Gallery security update has been released for Gentoo Linux

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-10:01
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Low
Title: Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Date: November 06, 2004
Bugs: #69904
ID: 200411-10:01

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Synopsis
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Gallery is vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.

Background
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Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 www-apps/gallery < 1.4.4_p4 >= 1.4.4_p4

Description
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Jim Paris has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Gallery.

Impact
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By sending a carefully crafted URL, an attacker can inject and execute script code in the victim's browser window, and potentially compromise the users gallery.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Gallery users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/gallery-1.4.4_p4"

References
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[ 1 ] Gallery Announcement
http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=142mode=threadorder=0thold=0

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200411-10.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0