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TITLE:
Symfony Session Fixation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49312

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-06-04

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Symfony, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct session fixation attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of
sessions and can be exploited to hijack another user's session by
tricking the user into logging in after following a specially crafted
link.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.4.18.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.18.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Dmitri Groutso.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://symfony.com/blog/security-release-symfony-1-4-18-released
https://trac.symfony-project.org/browser/tags/RELEASE_1_4_18/CHANGELOG

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