PublicDate: 2005-11-01 21:02:00 UTC Candidate: CVE-2005-3416 References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-3416 Description: phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled and the session_start function has not been called to handle a session, allows remote attackers to bypass security checks by setting the $_SESSION and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS variables to strings instead of arrays, which causes an array_merge function call to fail. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: Priority: untriaged Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: Bugs: dapper_phpbb2: released (2.0.18-2) edgy_phpbb2: released (2.0.18-2) feisty_phpbb2: released (2.0.18-2) devel_phpbb2: released (2.0.18-2) upstream_phpbb2: needs-triage