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<glsa id="200608-10">
  <title>pike: SQL injection vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A flaw in the input handling could lead to the execution of arbitrary SQL
    statements in the underlying PostgreSQL database.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pike</product>
  <announced>August 06, 2006</announced>
  <revised>December 13, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>136065</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-lang/pike" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">7.6.86</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.6.86</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Pike is a general purpose programming language, able to be used for
    multiple tasks.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Some input is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL
    statement in the underlying PostgreSQL database.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could provide malicious input to a pike program,
    which might result in the execution of arbitrary SQL statements.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All pike users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-lang/pike-7.6.86&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://secunia.com/advisories/20494/">Secunia Advisory SA20494</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4041">CVE-2006-4041</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:54:41 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:55:04 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:42:54 +0000">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>