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Mandriva Update for php-pear MDVSA-2011:187 (php-pear)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Mandrake Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'php-pear' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in php-pear: The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2519 (CVE-2011-1072). This advisory provides PEAR 1.9.4 which is not vulnerable to this issue. Additionally for Mandriva Enterprise Server 5 many new or updated PEAR packages is being provided with the latest versions of respective packages as well as mitigating various dependency issues.

Affected Software

Affected Software

php-pear on Mandriva Linux 2010.1, Mandriva Linux 2010.1/X86_64, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5, Mandriva Enterprise Server 5/X86_64

Solution

Solution

Please Install the Updated Packages.

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