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title: "CVE-2008-3568\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2008-3568

Publication date 10 August 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in
fckeditor/editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/php/connector.php
in UNAK-CMS 1.5.5 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary
local files via a full pathname in the Dirroot parameter, a different
vulnerability than CVE-2006-4890.1.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-3568?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| fckeditor | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected |
| 7.10 gutsy | Not in release |
| 7.04 feisty | Not in release |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

per Debian, unak specific change, see fckeditor/unak\_changes.txt
in source fckeditor: <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3568)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3568)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2008-3568)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-3568)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3568>