From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 05:35:15 CDT

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TITLE:
Gallery Arbitrary File Inclusion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA9998

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9998/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Gallery 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Gallery allowing malicious
people to include arbitrary files.

The problem is that "setup/index.php" doesn't verify the
"GALLERY_BASEDIR" parameter properly allowing malicious people to
supply arbitrary paths to local and remote resources.

The vulnerability only affects Gallery 1.4 and later in setup mode.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4-pl2:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130&release_id=184028

In production mode the "setup" directory isn't accesible.

REPORTED BY / CREDITS:
pcs, rootquest

OTHER REFERENCES:
http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=93&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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