Package: phpbb2
Version: 2.0.13-6sarge3
Severity: normal
A while ago, the phpbb project released version 2.0.21, which fixes some
bugs, one of them security related. From the changelog:
[Fix] Changes to random number generator code to explicitly truncate
the length of the string
[Fix] Quoting on boards with HTML enabled
[Fix] Special characters on boards with HTML enabled
[Fix] Redirect to list if cancelling deletion of ranks, smilies or word
censors
[Fix] Missing error message if an inactive user tried to login (Bug #1598)
[Fix] Do not alter post counts when just removing a poll (Bug #1602)
[Fix] Correct error in removal of old session keys
[Fix] Changed filtering of short search terms
[Sec] Improved filtering on language selection (also addresses a number
of bug reports related to missing languages)
[Change] Backported more efficient highlighting code from Olympus
[Change] Backported zlib emulation code so that there is only a single
confirmation image even if zlib is not available
The announcement is available here:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=397315
I searched for a CVE number, but couldn't find one. I don't know how
severe this bug is, but it would be nice to have an updated version for
sarge.
Thomas
PS: Thanks for working on making Debian such a great product! I really
enjoy it!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages phpbb2 depends on:
ii apache2 2.0.54-5 next generation, scalable, extenda
ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.0.54-5 traditional model for Apache2
ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii libapache2-mod-php4 4:4.3.10-16 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php4 4:4.3.10-16 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php4-cgi 4:4.3.10-16 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php4-mysql 4:4.3.10-16 MySQL module for php4
-- debconf information:
* phpbb2/httpd: apache
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