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Gentoo: GLSA-201301-07 Normal: DokuWiki Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2013
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Critical announcement regarding vulnerabilities in DokuWiki impacting Gentoo systems, risk of unauthorized privilege elevation and data exposure.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in DokuWiki, the worst of which leading to privilege escalation.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in DokuWiki. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue privilege escalation normal severity DokuWiki

Resolution

All DokuWiki users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/dokuwiki-20121013"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0287 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0287 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-0288 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0288 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-0289 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0289 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-2510 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2510 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-3727 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3727 [ 6 ] CVE-2012-0283 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0283

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201301-07
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Concerns

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.

Severity: Normal
Title: DokuWiki: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 09, 2013
Bugs: #301310, #386155, #412891, #427232
ID: 201301-07

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue privilege escalation normal severity DokuWiki

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in DokuWiki, the worst of which leading to privilege escalation.

Background

DokuWiki is a simple to use Wiki aimed at a small company's documentation needs.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/dokuwiki < 20121013 >= 20121013

Impact

===== The vulnerabilities might allow an attacker to disclose local files, to inject arbitrary web script, or to gain elevated privileges in the DokuWiki application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.