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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200508-18
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Severity: High
Title: PhpWiki: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC
Date: August 26, 2005
Bugs: #102380
ID: 200508-18

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Synopsis
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PhpWiki includes PHP XML-RPC code which is vulnerable to arbitrary
command execution.

Background
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PhpWiki is an application that creates a web site where anyone can edit
the pages through HTML forms.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 www-apps/phpwiki < 1.3.10-r2 >= 1.3.10-r2

Description
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Earlier versions of PhpWiki contain an XML-RPC library that improperly
handles XML-RPC requests and responses with malformed nested tags.

Impact
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A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary
PHP script code into eval() statements by sending a specially crafted
XML document to PhpWiki.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All PhpWiki users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/phpwiki-1.3.10-r2"

References
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-2498
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2498

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-200508-18.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 (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

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

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

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