[pkg-horde] Re: horde problem.

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Wed Mar 29 15:35:51 UTC 2006


Martin Schulze wrote:
> I've been told (haven't had the time to check on my own) that
> a very serious security problem in horde has been discovered.
> 
> Are you able to provide fixed packages for woody, sarge and sid
> soon, if the version in one of these distributions is affected
> by this problem?

According to upstream Woody isn't affected. I've extracted the fix, that
should apply cleanly to Sarge:

diff -uNr horde-3.0.9/services/help/index.php horde-3.0.10/services/help/index.php
--- horde-3.0.9/services/help/index.php Mon Jan  3 04:25:45 2005
+++ horde-3.0.10/services/help/index.php        Tue Mar 28 04:33:33 2006
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
         require HORDE_TEMPLATES . '/help/menu.inc';
     } elseif ($show == 'about') {
         require $fileroot . '/lib/version.php';
-        eval('$version = "' . ucfirst($module) . ' " . ' . String::upper($module) . '_VERSION;');
+        $version = String::ucfirst($module) . ' ' . constant(String::upper($module) . '_VERSION');
         $credits = Util::bufferOutput('include', $fileroot . '/docs/CREDITS');
         $credits = String::convertCharset($credits, 'iso-8859-1', NLS::getCharset());
         require HORDE_TEMPLATES . '/help/about.inc';

Unfortunately I'm very busy today, so I can't push out an update. Possibly
tomorrow, but I'd be good if one you could go ahead, as this seems very
easily exploitable.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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