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TITLE:
Drupal Auto Assign Role Module Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39807

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39807/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in the Auto Assign Role module for
Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain
security restrictions.

An error in the handling of access permissions can be exploited to
view the contents of otherwise restricted nodes.

Successful exploitation requires "administer autoassignrole"
permissions.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 6.x-1.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.x-1.2.
http://drupal.org/node/795926

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits mr.baileys

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SA-CONTRIB-2010-045:
http://drupal.org/node/797216

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