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phpBB 2.0.21 released, SD701 updated

Postby Antony » Thu 08 Jun, 2006 5:59 am

phpBB Group has released phpBB 2.0.21, and we've updated to the latest version.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=397315
What has changed in this release?

The changelog (contained within this release) is as follows:

[Fix] Changes to random number generator code to explicitly truncate the length of the string
[Fix] Quoting on boards with HTML enabled
[Fix] Special characters on boards with HTML enabled
[Fix] Redirect to list if cancelling deletion of ranks, smilies or word censors
[Fix] Missing error message if an inactive user tried to login (Bug #1598)
[Fix] Do not alter post counts when just removing a poll (Bug #1602)
[Fix] Correct error in removal of old session keys
[Fix] Changed filtering of short search terms
[Sec] Improved filtering on language selection (also addresses a number of bug reports related to missing languages)
[Change] Backported more efficient highlighting code from Olympus
[Change] Backported zlib emulation code so that there is only a single confirmation image even if zlib is not available
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Postby J-M » Thu 15 Jun, 2006 9:06 am

Secunia reported last week that "Upload Avatar from a URL" weakness and PHP code execution vulnerability has been fixed with this update:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20093/

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Changelog:
2006-05-23: Updated advisory.
2006-06-09: Updated "Solution" section.


There was related SD701 thread if I'm not wrong.
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Postby J-M » Thu 15 Jun, 2006 9:14 am

And many thanks for securing our forum with updating it to the latest version.
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