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Gentoo GLSA-201701-25 Normal: phpBB Script Injection Threat Analysis

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phpBB has notable security vulnerabilities that may allow script injection or CSRF attacks. For detailed insights, refer to the advisory for more information
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in phpBB, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo web application normal severity CSRF phpBB script injection

Resolution

Gentoo Security support has been discontinued due to phpBB being dropped to unstable. As such, we recommend that users unmerge phpBB: # emerge --unmerge "www-apps/phpBB"
NOTE: Users could alternatively upgrade to ">=www-apps/phpBB-3.1.10", however, these packages are not currently marked stable.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1431 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1431 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-1432 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1432

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-25
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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.

Severity: Normal
Title: phpBB: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 11, 2017
Bugs: #538360
ID: 201701-25

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo web application normal severity CSRF phpBB script injection

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in phpBB, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Background

phpBB is an Open Source bulletin board package.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/phpBB < 3.1.10 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 may be able to change settings, inject arbitrary web script or HTML, or conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.