gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200605-16.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200605-16">
  <title>CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    CherryPy is vulnerable to a directory traversal that could allow attackers
    to read arbitrary files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">cherrypy</product>
  <announced>2006-05-30</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-05-30</revised>
  <bug>134273</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-python/cherrypy" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.1.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development
    framework.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Ivo van der Wijk discovered that the "staticfilter" component of
    CherryPy fails to sanitize input correctly.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbitrary files from
    the web server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All CherryPy users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-python/cherrypy-2.1.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0847">CVE-2006-0847</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-05-27T09:02:22Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-05-27T09:02:32Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-05-28T21:15:45Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>