[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200805-21 ] Roundup: Permission bypass

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200805-21

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: Roundup: Permission bypass

Date: May 27, 2008

Bugs: #212488, #214666

ID: 200805-21

 

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Synopsis

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A vulnerability in Roundup allows for bypassing permission

restrictions.

 

Background

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Roundup is an issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail

interfaces.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 www-apps/roundup < 1.4.4-r1 >= 1.4.4-r1

 

Description

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Philipp Gortan reported that the xml-rpc server in Roundup does not

check property permissions (CVE-2008-1475). Furthermore, Roland Meister

discovered multiple vulnerabilities caused by unspecified errors, some

of which may be related to cross-site scripting (CVE-2008-1474).

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could possibly exploit the first vulnerability to

edit or view restricted properties via the list(), display(), and set()

methods. The impact and attack vectors of the second vulnerability are

unknown.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Roundup users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/roundup-1.4.4-r1"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-1474

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1474

[ 2 ] CVE-2008-1475

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1475

 

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-200805-21.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 ( -at -) 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

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5