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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70520
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:187 (php-pear)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to php-pear
announced via advisory MDVSA-2011:187.

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in php-pear:

The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite
arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file,
related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and
(4) pear-build-download directories, a different vulnerability than
CVE-2007-2519 (CVE-2011-1072).

This advisory provides PEAR 1.9.4 which is not vulnerable to this
issue.

Additionally for Mandriva Enterprise Server 5 many new or updated
PEAR packages is being provided with the latest versions of respective
packages as well as mitigating various dependency issues.

Affected: 2010.1, Enterprise Server 5.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2011:187

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2519
BugTraq ID: 24111
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24111
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:110
http://osvdb.org/42108
http://secunia.com/advisories/25372
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-462-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1926
XForce ISS Database: pear-installer-file-overwrite(34482)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34482
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1072
43533
http://secunia.com/advisories/43533
46605
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605
MDVSA-2011:187
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187
RHSA-2011:1741
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html
[oss-security] 20110228 CVE Request: PEAR Installer 1.9.1 <= - Symlink Attack
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3
[oss-security] 20110228 Re: CVE Request: PEAR Installer 1.9.1 <= - Symlink Attack
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5
[oss-security] 20110301 Re: CVE Request: PEAR Installer 1.9.1 <= - Symlink Attack
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164
http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264
http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt
http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072
http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687
pear-pear-installer-symlink(65721)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721
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