From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 05:51:46 CDT

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TITLE:
Turbo Seek Arbitrary File Content Disclosure Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12500

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12500/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Turbo Seek 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3888/

DESCRIPTION:
durito has reported a vulnerability in Turbo Seek, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose the content of arbitrary
files.

Input passed to the "location" variable in "tseekdir.cgi" is not
handled correctly. This can be exploited to disclose the content of
arbitrary files on a system by appending a NULL byte at the end of a
requested filename.

Example:
http://[victim]/cgi-bin/cgi/tseekdir.cgi?location=/etc/passwd%00

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.7.2.
http://www.focalmedia.net/tbdownload.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
durito

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lwb57.webmen.ru/advisories/text/adv17.txt

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