Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the Meta Tags module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Drupal Meta Tags Module Arbitrary Code Execution
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28478
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28478/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Drupal Meta Tags Module 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/17200/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Meta Tags module for Drupal,
which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable
system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
nodes. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by creating
specially crafted nodes containing image files.
Successful exploitation requires that images are allowed in the
created node.
The vulnerability is reported in version 5.x-1.6.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.x-1.7.
http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/nodewords-5.x-1.7.tar.gz
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://drupal.org/node/209759
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