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TITLE:
SimpleCam Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15247

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15247/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SimpleCam 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5047/

DESCRIPTION:
Donato Ferrante has reported a vulnerability in SimpleCam, which can
be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially
sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error and can
be exploited to read the contents of arbitrary files outside the web
root via directory traversal attacks.

This has been reported in version 1.2.  Prior versions may also be
vulnerable.

SOLUTION:
This has been fixed in version 1.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Donato Ferrante

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/SimpleCam1.2-adv.txt

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