CVE-2005-4467 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in help_text_vars.php in PHPGedView 3.3.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the PGV_BASE_DIRECTORY parameter.

Reference

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpgedview/phpGedView/help_text_vars.php?r1=1.63&r2=1.64 http://rgod.altervista.org/phpgedview_337_xpl.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18177 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015395 http://www.osvdb.org/22009 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419906/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15983 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3033 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23871 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1386434&group_id=55456&atid=477081