Debian Security Advisory
DSA-138-1 gallery -- remote exploit
- Date Reported:
- 01 Aug 2002
- Affected Packages:
- gallery
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 5375.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1412. - More information:
-
A problem was found in gallery (a web-based photo album toolkit): it was possible to pass in the GALLERY_BASEDIR variable remotely. This made it possible to execute commands under the uid of web-server.
This has been fixed in version 1.2.5-7 of the Debian package and upstream version 1.3.1.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.2.5-7.woody.0.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.2.5-7.woody.0.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.2.5-7.woody.0_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.