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TITLE:
Gallery Cookie Handling Security Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32817

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32817/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Gallery 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/1933/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Gallery, which can be exploited
by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when handling
certain cookies, which can be exploited to gain administrative access
to the application.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

The vulnerability is reported in Gallery 1.x versions  1.5.8-svn-b34
and later.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.10.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits John Hisdock.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://gallery.menalto.com/last_official_G1_releases

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