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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200805-09.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200805-09">
<title>MoinMoin: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>
A vulnerability in MoinMoin may allow a remote attacker to elevate his
privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">moinmoin</product>
<announced>May 11, 2008</announced>
<revised>May 11, 2008: 01</revised>
<bug>218752</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="www-apps/moinmoin" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.6.3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.6.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
MoinMoin is an advanced and extensible Wiki Engine.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
It has been reported that the user form processing in the file
userform.py does not properly manage users when using Access Control
Lists or a non-empty superusers list.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain superuser
privileges on the application.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All MoinMoin users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apps/moinmoin-1.6.3&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1937">CVE-2008-1937</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 07 May 2008 22:43:27 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 07 May 2008 22:49:11 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 09 May 2008 14:03:55 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>