GLSA 200805-21: Roundup: Permission bypass

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Roundup: Permission bypass
Date:	05/27/2008
Bugs:	#212488, #214666
ID:	200805-21

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Roundup allows for bypassing permission restrictions.

Background

Roundup is an issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/roundup	< 1.4.4-r1	>= 1.4.4-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Philipp Gortan reported that the xml-rpc server in Roundup does not check property permissions (CVE-2008-1475). Furthermore, Roland Meister discovered multiple vulnerabilities caused by unspecified errors, some of which may be related to cross-site scripting (CVE-2008-1474).

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly exploit the first vulnerability to edit or view restricted properties via the list(), display(), and set() methods. The impact and attack vectors of the second vulnerability are unknown.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Roundup users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/roundup-1.4.4-r1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-21.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.