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>> Pear MDB2 LOB URL Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Title : Pear MDB2 LOB URL Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3806
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5934
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-09


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A vulnerability has been identified in Pear MDB2, which could be exploited by attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing and storing user-supplied URLs as LOB, which could be exploited by attackers to potentially disclose the contents of arbitrary files via a specially crafted URI (e.g. file:///etc/passwd).

Affected Products

Pear MDB2 versions prior to 2.5.0a1

Solution

Upgrade to Pear MDB2 version 2.5.0a1 :
http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2/download/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3806
http://pear.php.net/bugs/10024

Credits

Vulnerability reported by priyadi.

ChangeLog

2007-11-09 : Initial release

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