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Debian: New phpbb2 packages fix several vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Debian Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpBB, a web based bulletin board.Private messaging allowed cross site request forgery, making it possible to delete all private messages of a user by sending them to a crafted web page.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1488-1                  security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                          Thijs Kinkhorst
February 09, 2008                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : phpbb2
Vulnerability  : several
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2006-4758 CVE-2006-6839 CVE-2006-6840 CVE-2006-6508 CVE-2006-6841 CVE-2008-0471
Debian Bug     : 388120 405980 463589

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpBB, a web
based bulletin board.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2008-0471

	Private messaging allowed cross site request forgery, making
	it possible to delete all private messages of a user by sending
	them to a crafted web page.

CVE-2006-6841 / CVE-2006-6508

	Cross site request forgery enabled an attacker to perform various
	actions on behalf of a logged in user. (Applies to sarge only)

CVE-2006-6840

	A negative start parameter could allow an attacker to create
	invalid output. (Applies to sarge only)

CVE-2006-6839

	Redirection targets were not fully checked, leaving room for
	unauthorised external redirections via a phpBB forum.
	(Applies to sarge only)

CVE-2006-4758

	An authenticated forum administrator may upload files of any
	type by using specially crafted filenames. (Applies to sarge only)


For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.0.21-7.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been
fixed in version 2.0.13+1-6sarge4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed
in version 2.0.22-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb2 package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
- --------------------------------

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13+1-6sarge4.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    67912 c403597d08f4c5af0f62b84c5ee72a7e
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13+1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:  3340445 678d0cb0372e46402a472c510fb90d78
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13+1-6sarge4.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:     1011 d5ca94a7a4c2b3468428a993a1dbc5cc

Architecture independent packages:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2-conf-mysql_2.0.13-6sarge4_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    37766 f0df2114bd60d9b84fbda1d241294fdd
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.13-6sarge4_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   526154 944e55e056fc34d970e95b78201589fe
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2-languages_2.0.13-6sarge4_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:  2868920 f10c4962035ede6e02417b8098efeda0

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
- -------------------------------

Source archives:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.21-7.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum:     1051 88ad3a4f2ee714cce779873b53ebd323
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.21.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:  3203456 30383a9bf6c5d21736e4bdf9ec7852d5
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.21-7.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum:    90580 896f80500e90867741c516e57fc8bfcc

Architecture independent packages:

  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2-languages_2.0.21-7_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:  2791410 afd8a0fe8138c8a5cf00a3e4ac10ac59
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2_2.0.21-7_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:   554842 e8825ef3431bfe7ccf72f9f59f13a119
  http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpbb2/phpbb2-conf-mysql_2.0.21-7_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum:    53706 49baf96bcc1c273a93e8bb5169dca722


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
 
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