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<glsa id="200603-13">
  <title>PEAR-Auth: Potential authentication bypass</title>
  <synopsis>
    PEAR-Auth did not correctly verify data passed to the DB and LDAP
    containers, thus allowing to inject false credentials to bypass the
    authentication.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pear-auth</product>
  <announced>2006-03-17</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-03-17</revised>
  <bug>123832</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-php/PEAR-Auth" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.2.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.2.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    PEAR-Auth is a PEAR package that provides methods to create a PHP
    based authentication system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Matt Van Gundy discovered that PEAR-Auth did not correctly
    validate data passed to the DB and LDAP containers.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to
    bypass the authentication mechanism by injecting specially crafted
    input to the underlying storage containers.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PEAR-Auth users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-php/PEAR-Auth-1.2.4"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0868">CVE-2006-0868</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-03-14T21:29:18Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-14T21:29:45Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-03-14T23:22:04Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>
