Technical Description

Gentoo has released a security patch to correct a vulnerability identified in phpWebSite. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the XML-RPC for PHP library, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands and compromise a vulnerable web server. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0945

Affected Products

phpWebSite versions prior to 0.10.1-r1

Solution

Upgrade the affectd package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=www-app/phpwebsite-0.10.1-r1"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1032
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-07.xml

ChangeLog

2005-07-11 : Initial release

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