From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Aug 16 2004 - 08:36:22 CDT

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TITLE:
QuiXplorer Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12298

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12298/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
QuiXplorer 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3790/

DESCRIPTION:
Cyrille Barthelemy has reported a vulnerability in QuiXplorer, which
can be exploited by malicious people to read arbitrary files on a
vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error, making
it possible to access arbitrary files outside the web root via
directory traversal attacks on requested items.

Versions prior to 2.3.1 are reportedly affected by this
vulnerability.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.1.
http://quixplorer.sourceforge.net/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Cyrille Barthelemy

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