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[DSA138] DSA-138-1 gallery

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-138-1 gallery

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

A problem was found in gallery (a web-based photo album toolkit): it
was possible to pass in the GALLERY_BASEDIR variable remotely. This
made it possible to execute commands under the uid of web-server.
This has been fixed in version 1.2.5-7 of the Debian package and upstream
version 1.3.1.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-138
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 5375

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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