From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 06:50:43 CST

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TITLE:
phpBB Avatar Functions Information Disclosure and Deletion

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14362

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14362/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
phpBB 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/463/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpBB, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to disclose and delete sensitive
information.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to some unspecified errors in the
avatar handling functions and may be exploited to disclose and delete
arbitrary files.

Some issues disclosing the full path to certain scripts have also
been reported.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.12.
http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
AnthraX101

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=265423

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