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FarsiNews Local File Inclusion Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA18768
Release Date: 2006-02-10
Last Update: 2006-02-16
Popularity: 6,131 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:FarsiNews 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0660


Description:
Hamid Ebadi has reported two vulnerabilities in FarsiNews, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "archive" parameter in "index.php" and the "template" parameter in "show_archives.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 2.1 and 2.5 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 2.5.3.
http://www.farsinewsteam.com/download...011010100110.101001100001101111111001

Provided and/or discovered by:
Hamid Ebadi, Hamid Network Security Team

Changelog:
2006-02-16: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.hamid.ir/security/farsinews2-5.txt


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