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

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<!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>2008-05-11</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-05-11</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 "&gt;=www-apps/moinmoin-1.6.3"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1937">CVE-2008-1937</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-05-07T22:43:27Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-05-07T22:49:11Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-05-09T14:03:55Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>