Steffen Joeris
2008-Nov-01 11:34 UTC
[Secure-testing-team] Bug#504172: CVE-2008-4796: missing input sanitising in Snoopy.class.php
Package: mediamate Severity: grave Tags: security, patch Justification: user security hole Hi, the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for mediamate. CVE-2008-4796[0]: | The _httpsrequest function (Snoopy/Snoopy.class.php) in Snoopy 1.2.3 | and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via | shell metacharacters in https URLs. NOTE: some of these details are | obtained from third party information. The extracted patch for Snoopy.class.php can be found here[1]. However it would be much appreciated (and it is a release goal anyway), if you could just depend on libphp-snoopy, instead of duplicating the code. (Maybe you need to change some includes, I didn''t check that). That would make life much easier for the security team. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE id in your changelog entry.>From what I can see there might be one or two patches in your Snoopy.class.phpfile, which you might want to forward to the libphp-snoopy maintainer. (For example I was looking at the proxy stuff). Also, since the package is in stable (etch), I''d like to know in which way the php library is invoked and how vulnerable to attacks the stable version is. If it is severe enough, we should prepare a DSA, otherwise an update could go through s-p-u. Thanks for your work on mediamate. Cheers Steffen For further information see: [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4796 http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-4796 [1] http://klecker.debian.org/~white/libphp-snoopy/CVE-2008-4796.patch