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[ GLSA 200812-20 ] phpCollab: Multiple vulnerabilities



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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200812-20
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   Severity: High
      Title: phpCollab: Multiple vulnerabilities
       Date: December 21, 2008
       Bugs: #235052
         ID: 200812-20

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Synopsis
========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpCollab allowing for
remote injection of shell commands, PHP code and SQL statements.

Background
==========

phpCollab is a web-enabled groupware and project management software
written in PHP. It uses SQL-based database backends.

Affected packages
=================

     -------------------------------------------------------------------
      Package             /  Vulnerable  /                   Unaffected
     -------------------------------------------------------------------
   1  www-apps/phpcollab     <= 2.5_rc3                     Vulnerable!
     -------------------------------------------------------------------
      NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
            to another package if one is available or wait for the
            existing packages to be marked stable by their
            architecture maintainers.

Description
===========

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in phpCollab:

* rgod reported that data sent to general/sendpassword.php via the
   loginForm parameter is not properly sanitized before being used in an
   SQL statement (CVE-2006-1495).

* Christian Hoffmann of Gentoo Security discovered multiple
   vulnerabilites where input is insufficiently sanitized before being
   used in an SQL statement, for instance in general/login.php via the
   loginForm parameter. (CVE-2008-4303).

* Christian Hoffmann also found out that the variable
   $SSL_CLIENT_CERT in general/login.php is not properly sanitized
   before being used in a shell command. (CVE-2008-4304).

* User-supplied data to installation/setup.php is not checked before
   being written to include/settings.php which is executed later. This
   issue was reported by Christian Hoffmann as well (CVE-2008-4305).

Impact
======

These vulnerabilities enable remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL
statements and PHP code. NOTE: Some of the SQL injection
vulnerabilities require the php.ini option "magic_quotes_gpc" to be
disabled. Furthermore, an attacker might be able to execute arbitrary
shell commands if "register_globals" is enabled, "magic_quotes_gpc" is
disabled, the PHP OpenSSL extension is not installed or loaded and the
file "installation/setup.php" has not been deleted after installation.

Workaround
==========

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
==========

phpCollab has been removed from the Portage tree. We recommend that
users unmerge phpCollab:

     # emerge --unmerge "www-apps/phpcollab"

References
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   [ 1 ] CVE-2006-1495
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1495
   [ 2 ] CVE-2008-4303
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4303
   [ 3 ] CVE-2008-4304
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4304
   [ 4 ] CVE-2008-4305
         http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4305

Availability
============

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

   http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-20.xml

Concerns?
=========

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@xxxxxxxxxx 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



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