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diff --git a/metadata/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..abedea578bcf --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> +<glsa id="200811-05"> + <title>PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> + <synopsis> + PHP contains several vulnerabilities including buffer and integer overflows + which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code. + </synopsis> + <product type="ebuild">php</product> + <announced>2008-11-16</announced> + <revised>2008-11-16: 01</revised> + <bug>209148</bug> + <bug>212211</bug> + <bug>215266</bug> + <bug>228369</bug> + <bug>230575</bug> + <bug>234102</bug> + <access>remote</access> + <affected> + <package name="dev-lang/php" auto="yes" arch="*"> + <unaffected range="ge">5.2.6-r6</unaffected> + <vulnerable range="lt">5.2.6-r6</vulnerable> + </package> + </affected> + <background> + <p> + PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is + especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. + </p> + </background> + <description> + <p> + Several vulnerabilitites were found in PHP: + </p> + <ul> + <li>PHP ships a + vulnerable version of the PCRE library which allows for the + circumvention of security restrictions or even for remote code + execution in case of an application which accepts user-supplied regular + expressions (CVE-2008-0674).</li> + <li>Multiple crash issues in several + PHP functions have been discovered.</li> + <li>Ryan Permeh reported that + the init_request_info() function in sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c does not + properly consider operator precedence when calculating the length of + PATH_TRANSLATED (CVE-2008-0599).</li> + <li>An off-by-one error in the + metaphone() function may lead to memory corruption.</li> + <li>Maksymilian Arciemowicz of SecurityReason Research reported an + integer overflow, which is triggerable using printf() and related + functions (CVE-2008-1384).</li> + <li>Andrei Nigmatulin reported a + stack-based buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI, which has unknown + attack vectors (CVE-2008-2050).</li> + <li>Stefan Esser reported that PHP + does not correctly handle multibyte characters inside the + escapeshellcmd() function, which is used to sanitize user input before + its usage in shell commands (CVE-2008-2051).</li> + <li>Stefan Esser + reported that a short-coming in PHP's algorithm of seeding the random + number generator might allow for predictible random numbers + (CVE-2008-2107, CVE-2008-2108).</li> + <li>The IMAP extension in PHP uses + obsolete c-client API calls making it vulnerable to buffer overflows as + no bounds checking can be done (CVE-2008-2829).</li> + <li>Tavis Ormandy + reported a heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the PCRE + version shipped by PHP when processing user-supplied regular + expressions (CVE-2008-2371).</li> + <li>CzechSec reported that specially + crafted font files can lead to an overflow in the imageloadfont() + function in ext/gd/gd.c, which is part of the GD extension + (CVE-2008-3658).</li> + <li>Maksymilian Arciemowicz of SecurityReason + Research reported that a design error in PHP's stream wrappers allows + to circumvent safe_mode checks in several filesystem-related PHP + functions (CVE-2008-2665, CVE-2008-2666).</li> + <li>Laurent Gaffie + discovered a buffer overflow in the internal memnstr() function, which + is used by the PHP function explode() (CVE-2008-3659).</li> + <li>An + error in the FastCGI SAPI when processing a request with multiple dots + preceding the extension (CVE-2008-3660).</li> + </ul> + </description> + <impact type="normal"> + <p> + These vulnerabilities might allow a remote attacker to execute + arbitrary code, to cause a Denial of Service, to circumvent security + restrictions, to disclose information, and to manipulate files. + </p> + </impact> + <workaround> + <p> + There is no known workaround at this time. + </p> + </workaround> + <resolution> + <p> + All PHP users should upgrade to the latest version: + </p> + <code> + # emerge --sync + # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r6"</code> + </resolution> + <references> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0599">CVE-2008-0599</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0674">CVE-2008-0674</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1384">CVE-2008-1384</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2050">CVE-2008-2050</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2051">CVE-2008-2051</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2107">CVE-2008-2107</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2108">CVE-2008-2108</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2371">CVE-2008-2371</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2665">CVE-2008-2665</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2666">CVE-2008-2666</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2829">CVE-2008-2829</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3658">CVE-2008-3658</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3659">CVE-2008-3659</uri> + <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3660">CVE-2008-3660</uri> + </references> + <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-03-17T01:12:26Z"> + rbu + </metadata> + <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-11-10T18:29:08Z"> + keytoaster + </metadata> + <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-11-16T16:06:26Z"> + keytoaster + </metadata> +</glsa> |