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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-15
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          PACKAGE : phpbb
          SUMMARY : sql injection
             DATE : 2003-06-28 20:22 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =phpbb-2.0.5
              CVE : CAN-2003-0486

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quote from cve:
"SQL injection vulnerability in viewtopic.php for phpBB 2.0.5 and 
earlier allows remote attackers to steal password hashes via the 
topic_id parameter."

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-www/phpbb upgrade to phpbb-2.0.5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge phpbb
emerge clean

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robbat2@gentoo.org
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