Gallery 1.4.4-pl4 and all versions of Gallery 1 more recent than this
(I didn't check older versions as they are over 2 years old) are
actually not vulnerable to this. The actual code in contrib/phpBB2/
modules.php is:

42 $phpbb_root_path = "./";
43 // connect to phpbb
44 include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
45 include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);
46 include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions.'.$phpEx);

which defines phpbb_root_path first. Overwriting this through a get
parameter would do no good because of line 42, and by default Gallery
1 refuses to install if register_globals is enabled which should
prevent the reported problem even if line 42 is not included.

Source code for reference:

1.4.4-pl4:
http://gallery.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gallery/tags/
RELEASE_1_4_4_PL4/gallery/contrib/phpBB2/modules.php?view=markup

Current 1.5 branch (most up to date Gallery 1.5 versions, current
stable version)
http://gallery.svn.sourceforge.net/v...lery/branches/
BRANCH_1_5_LEGACY/gallery/contrib/phpBB2/modules.php?view=markup

SVN turnk (current development, current 1.6-alpha3 and future release
candidates)
http://gallery.svn.sourceforge.net/v...trunk/gallery/
contrib/phpBB2/modules.php?view=markup


-Chris
Gallery Project Manager

--
Chris Kelly
ckdake@ckdake.com
http://ckdake.com/


On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:52 AM, me you wrote:

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> Gallery <= 1.4.4-pl4 (phpbb_root_path) Remote File Include
> Vulnerability
>
> Script : Gallery
>
> Version : 1.4.4-pl4
>
> URL : http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gallery/
> gallery-1.6-alpha3.tar.gz
>
> Author : BorN To K!LL
>
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>
> Code in :. contrib/phpBB2/modules.php
>
> include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
> include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);
> include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions.'.$phpEx);
>
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>
> Explo!t :.
> ^^^^^
> www.site.com/[path]/contrib/phpBB2/modules.php?
> phpbb_root_path=shellcode.txt?
>
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>
> GreeTz to : Dr.2 , Asbmay , General C , ToOoFa ,
> SHiKaA , str0ke ...
>
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