Info

Last Modified

7 months ago

Percent Complete

15%

Disclosure

Dec 06, 2008

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

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Keywords

HPSBUX02431 SSRT090085

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2008-5624 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 32688
Secunia Advisory ID: 35003 35650 38090
ISS X-Force ID: 47318
Other Advisory URL: HPSBUX02431 SSRT090085: http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:045
Keyword: HPSBUX02431, SSRT090085, c01756421
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-12/0067.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-12/0073.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-12/0076.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-12/0077.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0008.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/basic_functions.c?r1=1.725.2.31.2.78&r2=1.725.2.31.2.79&diff_format=u
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/NEWS?r1=1.2027.2.547.2.1340&r2=1.2027.2.547.2.1341&diff_format=u
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/sapi/apache/mod_php5.c?r1=1.19.2.7.2.15&r2=1.19.2.7.2.16&diff_format=u
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00100.html
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201001-03.xml
http://www13.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c01756421
Vendor URL: http://www.php.net/

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-12-17 | Disagree?

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