[37398] in bugtraq
EXEC exploit in phpBB - fix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul S. Owen)
Thu Nov 18 11:48:43 2004
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From: "Paul S. Owen" <paul0x01@starstreak.net>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:33:45 -0000
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Following additional information supplied to us by a party other than
"howdark.com" we can confirm the existence of a serious exploit in phpBB, in
all versions below 2.0.11.
We will not post concept of proof information given the seriousness of this
issue. Unfortunately howdark.com group have chosen to as a personal vendetta
against phpbb.com.
We are preparing full, changed files and patch based releases which fix this
issue (and several other bugs/issues). While we are testing this we urge all
phpBB users to implement the fix given in the following announcement at
phpbb.com:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=240513
Please spread this information far and wide, all hosting providers if
possible please inform your users. Anyone copying the howdark.com exploit
_please_ ensure you also include details of the fix noted in the above post!
PS: Thanks to the bugtraq moderators for moderating out a previous post of
mine, ta muchly for that :)
