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Secunia Security Advisory 29480

Secunia Security Advisory 29480
Posted Mar 26, 2008
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Digital Security Research Group has discovered a vulnerability in PowerBook, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

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Secunia Security Advisory 29480

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A new version (0.9.0.0 - Release Candidate 1) of the free Secunia PSI
has been released. The new version includes many new and advanced
features, which makes it even easier to stay patched.

Download and test it today:
https://psi.secunia.com/

Read more about this new version:
https://psi.secunia.com/?page=changelog

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TITLE:
PowerBook "page" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29480

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29480/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PowerBook 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/18029/

DESCRIPTION:
Digital Security Research Group has discovered a vulnerability in
PowerBook, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information.

Input passed to the "page" parameter in pb_inc/admincenter/index.php
is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can
be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled
and that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.21. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Digital Security Research Group

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Mar/0308.html

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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