On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:13:46AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: phpbb2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: user security hole
> 
> [Upstream's description is not overly verbose; they intent to release
> full details in five days; please lower severity if you don't think
> it's grave]
> 
> phpbb2 2.0.15 has been released and addresses a security issue, which
> upstream describes as "serious". I'm not familiar with phpbb2, but it
> looks like missing input sanitization in the bbcode code.

Yeah, I read about it yesterday (was away for a few days) -- thanks for
reporting. I didn't yet look into it completely, looks like XSS to me.
 
> There's something, what seems to be a patch in the PHP world, in this
> forum message:
> http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=288194

Only phpbb manages to produce this kind of insane manual patches... :(

--Jeroen

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