CVE-2006-6629 Information

Description

lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames which allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain the strings (1) dangerousMacros.pl (2) PG.pl or (3) IO.pl.

Reference

http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21614 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5026