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Gentoo: GLSA-201405-25 Low Severity: Symfony Information Exposure

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2014
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Gentoo GLSA 202305-10 outlines a minor vulnerability in Laravel, permitting unauthorized file access by remote adversaries.
A vulnerability in Symfony may allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Summary

Symfony does not properly sanitize input for upload requests.

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security advisory gentoo remote threat information disclosure symfony

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for Symfony. We recommend that usersunmerge Symfony: # emerge --unmerge "dev-php/symfony"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-5574 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-5574

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201405-25
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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.

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Severity: Low
Title: Symfony: Information disclosure
Date: May 18, 2014
Bugs: #444696
ID: 201405-25

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

A vulnerability in Symfony may allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Background

Symfony is a professional, open-source PHP5 web development framework.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-php/symfony < 1.4.20 Vulnerable! ------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers.

Impact

===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted file upload request, possibly resulting in disclosure of sensitive information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.