DSA-879-1 gallery -- programming error

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-2596  

A bug in gallery has been discovered that grants all registrated postnuke users full access to the gallery. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-2. We recommend that you upgrade your gallery package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-879-1 gallery -- programming error

Date Reported:
02 Nov 2005
Affected Packages:
gallery
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2596.
More information:

A bug in gallery has been discovered that grants all registrated postnuke users full access to the gallery.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gallery package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5-1sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5-1sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gallery/gallery_1.5-1sarge1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.