mantisbt security flaw

[Joao Gouveia <tharbad () kaotik org>]

Hi,

Mantis is php/MySQL/web based bug tracking system, available at
http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net/.
It currently suffers from a classical PHP bad coding practice (altough i
would bet on distraction for this particular situation ), that may
result on remote command execution via a include file.

Users affected should aply the quick fix bellow, other acordingly, or
update mantisbt via CVS.
Affected versions should include the latest available for download ( at
the time of writing, 0.17.3), as well as the previous ones that include
the jpgraph feature.


Regards,

Joao Gouveia
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tharbad () kaotik org


-----Original Message-----
From: mantisbt-announce-admin () lists sourceforge net
[mailto:mantisbt-announce-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of
Kenzaburo Ito
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 02:34
To: mantisbt-announce () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Mantisbt-announce] Security Advisory


All,

There is a security hole in summary_graph_functions.php.  Users may be
able to run code remotely.  To fix, insert these lines at the top:

if ( isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['g_jpgraph_path']) ||
        isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['g_jpgraph_path']) ||
        isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['g_jpgraph_path']) ) {
                exit;
}

Thanks go to Joao Gouveia: tharbad () kaotik org

Thanks,
-Ken