Debian DSA-138-1 : gallery - remote exploit

high Nessus Plugin ID 14975

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

A problem was found in gallery (a web-based photo album toolkit): it was possible to pass in the GALLERY_BASEDIR variable remotely. This made it possible to execute commands under the uid of web-server.

Solution

This has been fixed in version 1.2.5-7 of the Debian package and upstream version 1.3.1.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-138

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 14975

File Name: debian_DSA-138.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gallery, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2002

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1412

BID: 5375

DSA: 138