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  Severity: Normal
     Title: PEAR-Auth: Potential authentication bypass
      Date: March 17, 2006
      Bugs: #123832
        ID: 200603-13

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Synopsis
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PEAR-Auth did not correctly verify data passed to the DB and LDAP
containers, thus allowing to inject false credentials to bypass the
authentication.

Background
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PEAR-Auth is a PEAR package that provides methods to create a PHP based
authentication system.

Affected packages
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     Package            /  Vulnerable  /                    Unaffected
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  1  dev-php/PEAR-Auth       < 1.2.4                          >= 1.2.4

Description
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Matt Van Gundy discovered that PEAR-Auth did not correctly validate
data passed to the DB and LDAP containers.

Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to bypass
the authentication mechanism by injecting specially crafted input to
the underlying storage containers.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All PEAR-Auth users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-php/PEAR-Auth-1.2.4"

References
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  [ 1 ] CVE-2006-0868
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0868

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200603-13

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/