Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Openads, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Openads Arbitrary PHP Code Execution Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28790
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28790/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Openads (formerly phpAdsNew) 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4585/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Openads, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
delivery engine and can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code.
The vulnerability is reported in versions from 2.4.0 to 2.4.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.3.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tanatik.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-February/060029.html
http://www.openads.org/products/openads/release-notes-2.4.3
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