CVE-2009-0753 Information

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in MLDonkey 2.8.4 through 2.9.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a leading //\ (double slash) in the filename.

Reference

http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25667 http://secunia.com/advisories/34008 http://secunia.com/advisories/34306 http://secunia.com/advisories/34345 http://secunia.com/advisories/34436 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1739 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-36.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/23/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33865 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8097 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00542.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00617.html