Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Apache2Triad, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This flaw is due to an error in the "php/pear/go-pear.php" script that does not properly validate the proxy server address, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by specifying a malicious proxy server.

Affected Products

Apache2triad version 1.5.3 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.4.4.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0148
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/4256

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Gammarays

ChangeLog

2006-01-11 : Initial release
2006-02-20 : Updated Solution

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