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Time for your regularly scheduled phpBB vuln fix...
A vulnerability has been reported in phpBB resembling the same "highlight" vulnerability that the Santy worm used to deface servers a few months back. A new version (2.0.16) has been released to fix the vulnerability. Anyone running phpBB is strongly recommended to upgrade immediately before the next malware reincarnation starts making its rounds. See the following links for more info:
Wow.. phpBB has had a lot of security issues lately. I think I won't be using their software any longer or recommending it until they can clear up and start having a better track record.
Originally posted by trickykid Wow.. phpBB has had a lot of security issues lately. I think I won't be using their software any longer or recommending it until they can clear up and start having a better track record.
Yeah, I would really need to put some thought into alternatives before installing phpBB. In fact, I recently needed to install a departmental messaging board and decided to go with a static HTML page rather than a more fulll featured PHP-based messaging board alternative, simply because PHP (and phpBB in particular) have a really bad years(s) in terms of security.
Exploit code for the new viewtopic vuln is now available and a new worm is reportedly in the wild, though initial reports indicate that it functions similarly to the anti-Santy worm and patches vulnerable versions (along with defacing your web content of course). All phpBB users are strongly recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.16 immediately.
Last edited by Capt_Caveman; 07-02-2005 at 01:39 AM.
For Mandrake/Mandriva users remember that even in 2005LE (10.2) the Mandriva phpBB packages are in contrib so they won't be updated through Mandrake Update/urpmi. Easy to get caught out by this!
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