Subject Selena Sol's Guestbook vulnerable Date 28-Apr-97
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Author/Source : Niels den Otter Index : S-97-28
Distribution : World Page : 1
Classification: External Version: 1
Subject : Selena Sol's Guestbook vulnerable Date : 28-Apr-97
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By courtesy of Selena Sol and CERT Coordination Center
we received the following information.
In CERT Coordination Center Vendor-Initiated Bulletin VB-97.02
Selena Sol reports a vulnerability in Selena Sol's Guestbook script.
This vulnerability allows remote users to execute arbitrary commands on the
web server as the uid of the httpd daemon.
This advisory provides the recommendation to update the guestbook to the
current version or implement the provided steps as appropriate to the
version that is used.
CERT-NL recommends to update the guestbook to the current version.
All CERT Coordination Center advisories and bulletins are mirrored
by CERT-NL. The specific URL for this case is:
<ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/surfnet/net-security/
cert-cc-mirror/cert_bulletins/VB-97.02>
More information about the CERT-NL mirror and notifier services is
contained in News items N-95-01 (notifier) and N-95-02 (CERT mirror),
both present on
<ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/surfnet/net-security/cert-nl/docs/news/>
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