[Secure-testing-team] Bug#736969: New upstream version fixing security issue

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Tue Jan 28 20:15:39 UTC 2014


Package: src:suphp
Version: 0.7.1-3
Severity: serious
Tags: security

>From http://www.suphp.org/Home.html

suPHP 0.7.2 has been released.
This release fixes a security issue that was introduced with the 0.7.0 release. This issue affected the source-highlighting feature and could only be exploited, if the suPHP_PHPPath option was set. In this case local users which could create or edit .htaccess files could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user the webserver was running as. 

I am not sure whether this warrants a DSA, but I've set the severity RC
since not upgrading to a new point release that fixes a security bug for
jessie would be stupid (Ubuntu has already upgraded the package for trusty).

Note that this package is orphaned, so a QA upload (that also fixes
the maintainer field) is required.



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