Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200406-10
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Gallery: Privilege escalation vulnerability
      Date: June 15, 2004
      Bugs: #52798
        ID: 200406-10

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Synopsis
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There is a vulnerability in the Gallery photo album software which may
allow an attacker to gain administrator privileges within Gallery.

Background
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Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize
and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and
maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on
other servers.

Affected packages
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     Package           /   Vulnerable   /                   Unaffected
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  1  app-misc/gallery      <= 1.4.3_p1                     >= 1.4.3_p2

Description
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There is a vulnerability in the Gallery photo album software which may
allow an attacker to gain administrator privileges within Gallery. A
Gallery administrator has full access to all albums and photos on the
server, thus attackers may add or delete photos at will.

Impact
======

Attackers may gain full access to all Gallery albums. There is no risk
to the webserver itself, or the server on which it runs.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
upgrade to the latest available version.

Resolution
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All users should upgrade to the latest available version of Gallery.

    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=app-misc/gallery-1.4.3_p2"
    # emerge ">=app-misc/gallery-1.4.3_p2"

References
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  [ 1 ] Gallery Announcement
 
http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=123&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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-200406-10.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 2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
 
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