GLSA 200501-45: Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability

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Severity:	low
Title:	Gallery: Cross-site scripting vulnerability
Date:	01/30/2005
Bugs:	#78522
ID:	200501-45

Synopsis

Gallery is vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.

Background

Gallery is a web application written in PHP which is used to organize and publish photo albums. It allows multiple users to build and maintain their own albums. It also supports the mirroring of images on other servers.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/gallery	< 1.4.4_p6	>= 1.4.4_p6	All supported architectures

Description

Rafel Ivgi has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability where the 'username' parameter is not properly sanitized in 'login.php'.

Impact

By sending a carefully crafted URL, an attacker can inject and execute script code in the victim's browser window, and potentially compromise the user's gallery.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Gallery users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/gallery-1.4.4_p6"

Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use webapp-config to finalize the update.

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-45.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.