CVE-2007-5934 Information

Description

The LOB functionality in PEAR MDB2 before 2.5.0a1 interprets a request to store a URL string as a request to retrieve and store the contents of the URL which might allow remote attackers to use MDB2 as an indirect proxy or obtain sensitive information via a URL into a form field in an MDB2 application as demonstrated by a file:// URL or a URL for an intranet web site.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198446 http://marc.info/?l=pear-cvs&m=117823082829114&w=2 http://osvdb.org/42107 http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=10024 http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2/download/2.5.0a1 http://secunia.com/advisories/27572 http://secunia.com/advisories/27626 http://secunia.com/advisories/27983 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-05.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26382 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3806 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00434.html