phpPgAds Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA16469
Release Date: 2005-08-17
Popularity: 7,955 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Openads for PostgreSQL (formerly phpPgAds) 2.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in phpPgAds, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information, conduct SQL injection attacks or compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A vulnerable version of XML-RPC for PHP was used.

For more information:
SA16431

2) Input passed to the "clientid" parameter in lib-view-direct.inc.php isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation requires MySQL 4.1+ or PostgreSQL.

3) Input passed to certain parameters is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary local files.

Solution:
Update to version 2.0.6.

Provided and/or discovered by:
2) Pine Digital Security
3) Maximilian Arciemowicz, SecurityReason.com.

Other References:
SA16431:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16431/


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