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TITLE:
Drupal Session Fixation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31211

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31211/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Hijacking

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Drupal 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/13378/
Drupal 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/17839/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Drupal, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct session fixation attacks.

An error in the handling of certain sessions can be exploited to
hijack another user's session by tricking the user into logging in
after following a specially crafted link.

The vulnerability is reported in all 5.x versions prior to 5.9 and
all 6.x versions prior to 6.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.9 or 6.3.

Apply patch to 5.8:
http://drupal.org/files/sa-2008-046/SA-2008-046-5.8.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Erich C. Beyrent. Additional information from
dmnd.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://drupal.org/node/280571
http://drupal.org/node/286417

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