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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200801-10
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Severity: Low
Title: TikiWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 23, 2008
Bugs: #203265
ID: 200801-10

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TikiWiki, some of them
having unknown impact.

Background
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TikiWiki is an open source content management system written in PHP.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 www-apps/tikiwiki < 1.9.9 >= 1.9.9

Description
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* Jesus Olmos Gonzalez from isecauditors reported insufficient
sanitization of the "movies" parameter in file tiki-listmovies.php
(CVE-2007-6528).

* Mesut Timur from H-Labs discovered that the input passed to the
"area_name" parameter in file tiki-special_chars.php is not properly
sanitised before being returned to the user (CVE-2007-6526).

* redflo reported multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in files
tiki-edit_css.php, tiki-list_games.php, and
tiki-g-admin_shared_source.php (CVE-2007-6529).

Impact
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A remote attacker can craft the "movies" parameter to run a directory
traversal attack through a ".." sequence and read the first 1000 bytes
of any arbitrary file, or conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack
through the "area_name" parameter. This attack can be exploited to
execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session,
allowing for the theft of browser session data or cookies in the
context of the affected web site. The impacts of the unspecified
vulnerabilities are still unknown.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All TikiWiki users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/tikiwiki-1.9.9"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-6526
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6526
[ 2 ] CVE-2007-6528
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6528
[ 3 ] CVE-2007-6529
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6529

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-200801-10.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 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
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