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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200903-36">
  <title>MLDonkey: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in the MLDonkey web interface allows remote attackers to
    disclose arbitrary files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mldonkey</product>
  <announced>2009-03-23</announced>
  <revised count="01">2009-03-23</revised>
  <bug>260072</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-p2p/mldonkey" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    MLDonkey is a multi-network P2P application written in Ocaml, coming
    with its own Gtk GUI, web and telnet interface.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Michael Peselnik reported that src/utils/lib/url.ml in the web
    interface of MLDonkey does not handle file names with leading double
    slashes properly.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could gain access to arbitrary files readable by the
    user running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    Disable the web interface or restrict access to it.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All MLDonkey users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-p2p/mldonkey-3.0.0"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0753">CVE-2009-0753</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-03-22T20:26:47Z">
    a3li
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-03-22T20:38:08Z">
    a3li
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-03-22T22:00:11Z">
    a3li
  </metadata>
</glsa>
