DSA-2752-1 phpbb3 -- permissions too wide

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2752-1 phpbb3 -- permissions too wide

Date Reported:

07 Sep 2013

Affected Packages:

phpbb3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 711172.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-5724.

More information:

Andreas Beckmann discovered that phpBB, a web forum, as installed in Debian, sets incorrect permissions for cached files, allowing a malicious local user to overwrite them.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.7-PL1-4+squeeze1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.10-4+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.11-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your phpbb3 packages.