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GLSA-200603-13 : PEAR-Auth: Potential authentication bypass

high Nessus Plugin ID 21094

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200603-13 (PEAR-Auth: Potential authentication bypass)

 Matt Van Gundy discovered that PEAR-Auth did not correctly validate data passed to the DB and LDAP containers.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to bypass the authentication mechanism by injecting specially crafted input to the underlying storage containers.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All PEAR-Auth users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-php/PEAR-Auth-1.2.4'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200603-13

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 21094

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200603-13.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 3/18/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pear-auth, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0868

GLSA: 200603-13