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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-12 Low: WordPress Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey August 11, 2004
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The Gentoo GLSA 200406-12 outlines a minor security flaw in the Roundup issue tracker, enabling unauthorized access to files from a remote location.
Roundup will make files owned by the user that it's running as accessable to a remote attacker.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200408-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: Roundup filesystem access vulnerability Date: August 11, 2004 Bugs: #53494 ID: 200408-09

Synopsis ======= Roundup will make files owned by the user that it's running as accessable to a remote attacker.
Background ========= Roundup is a simple to use issue-tracking system with command-line, web, and e-mail interfaces.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-www/roundup <= 0.6.4 >= 0.7.6
========== Improper handling of a specially crafted URL allows access to the server's filesystem, which could contain sensitive information.
Impact ===== An attacker could view files owned by the user ...

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