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:
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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.