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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201701-25
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: phpBB: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: January 11, 2017
     Bugs: #538360
       ID: 201701-25

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in phpBB, the worst of which
may allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Background
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phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package.

Affected packages
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    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
  1  www-apps/phpBB               < 3.1.10                 Vulnerable!
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
     NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
           to another package if one is available or wait for the
           existing packages to be marked stable by their
           architecture maintainers.

Description
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in phpBB. Please review
the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact
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A remote attacker may be able to change settings, inject arbitrary web
script or HTML, or conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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Gentoo Security support has been discontinued due to phpBB being
dropped to unstable. As such, we recommend that users unmerge phpBB:

  # emerge --unmerge "www-apps/phpBB"

NOTE: Users could alternatively upgrade to ">=www-apps/phpBB-3.1.10",
however, these packages are not currently marked stable.

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1431
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1431
[ 2 ] CVE-2015-1432
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1432

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25

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
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2017 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/2.5