On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:06 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> | After these weaknesses were found and disclosed to the vendor 
> | nearly 80 days ago, several problems with unitialised variables 
> | were discovered that allow XSS, SQL injection and even remote 
> | execution of arbitrary PHP code, when phpBB is used with 
> | register_globals turned on.
> 
> <http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_172005.75.html>
> 
> Vendor advisory: <http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=336756>
> (This contains a lot of additional fixes; it's not clear which ones are
> security-relevant.)

Thank you for your report; we were aware of these vulnerabilities but
the problem is exactly in the last sentence of your report: we need to
find out what exactly we need from this release.

We are working on that, but any help is greatly appreciated! So if
anyone can find out a specific patch for a specific changelog security
item, please add it to this bug. The issues as supplied by upstream:

  * [Sec] backport of session keys system from olympus 
      * [Sec] fixed email bans to use the same pattern as email
        validation and allow wildcard domain bans 
      * [Sec] fixed validation of topic type when posting 
      * [Sec] unset database password once it is no longer needed 
      * [Sec] fixed potential to select images outside the specified
        path as avatars or smilies 
      * [Sec] fix globals de-registration code for PHP5 - (Stefan
        Esser/Matt Kavanagh) 
      * [Sec] changed avatar gallery code sections to prevent possible
        injection points (AnthraX101) 
      * [Sec] signature field is not properly sanitised for user input
        when an error occurs while accessing the avatar gallery
        (AnthraX101) 
      * [Sec] check to_username and ownership when editing a PM
        (AnthraX101) 
      * [Sec] fixed ability to edit PM's you did not send (depablo84) 
      * [Sec] compare imagetype on avatar uploading to match the file
        extension from uploaded file.

regards,
Thijs

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