Secunia Security Advisory - Matt Van Gundy has reported some vulnerabilities in PEAR Auth, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
PEAR Auth DB / LDAP Multiple Injection Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19008
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
PEAR Auth 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/8266/
DESCRIPTION:
Matt Van Gundy has reported some vulnerabilities in PEAR Auth, which
can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.
Some unspecified input validation errors in the processing of input
passed to the DB and LDAP Auth containers can be exploited to bypass
the authentication process.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 1.2.4 and
1.3.0r4.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.4.
http://pear.php.net/get/Auth-1.2.4.tgz
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Matt Van Gundy
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