Security Advisory SA42622 - phpMyFAQ Compromised Source Packages Backdoor Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA42622

phpMyFAQ Compromised Source Packages Backdoor Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA42622

Release Date

2010-12-16

Last Update

2010-12-21

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

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From remote

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Solution Status

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Software:

phpMyFAQ 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-4558 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in phpMyFAQ, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The security issue is caused due to the distribution of compromised phpMyFAQ source code packages containing a backdoor, which can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary PHP code.

The compromised versions were distributed from December 4th to December 15th in versions 2.6.11 and 2.6.12.

Solution
Update to version 2.6.13. Please see the vendor's advisories for additional details.

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Original Advisory
http://www.phpmyfaq.de/advisory_2010-12-15.php

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