DSA-1965-1 phpldapadmin -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1965-1 phpldapadmin -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

06 Jan 2010

Affected Packages:

phpldapadmin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 561975.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-4427.

More information:

It was discovered that phpLDAPadmin, a web based interface for administering LDAP servers, doesn't sanitize an internal variable, which allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.0.5-6+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.0.7-1.1

We recommend that you upgrade your phpldapadmin package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_1.1.0.5-6+lenny1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_1.1.0.5.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_1.1.0.5-6+lenny1.diff.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/phpldapadmin/phpldapadmin_1.1.0.5-6+lenny1_all.deb

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