Gentoo: 200402-04 Normal: Gallery Remote Exploit Security Advisory

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200402-04
~                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

~  Severity: Normal
~     Title: Gallery <= 1.4.1 remote exploit vulnerability
~      Date: February 11, 2004
~      Bugs: #39638
~        ID: 200402-04


Synopsis
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The Gallery developers have discovered a potentially serious security
flaw in Gallery 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4 and 1.4.1 which can a remote
exploit of your webserver.

Background
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Gallery is an open source image management system written in PHP. More
information is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery/

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Starting in the 1.3.1 release, Gallery includes code to simulate the
behaviour of the PHP 'register_globals' variable in environments where
that setting is disabled.  It is simulated by extracting the values of
the various $HTTP_ global variables into the global namespa...
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