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PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 23 Jul 2012 10:47 Release Date: 23 Jul 2012 4929 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Servers - Internet App Servers

TYPE: Internet App Servers

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and execute arbitrary code on the target system. 

  1. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the SQLite extension and can be exploited to bypass the "open_basedir" feature.
  2. A remote user may be able to to trigger an overflow in the _php_stream_scandir() function and potentially execute arbitrary code on the target system.

 


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution
  • Security Restriction Bypass

System / Technologies affected

  •  PHP version prior to 5.3.15; 5.4.x prior to 5.4.5

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

  •  The vendor has issued a fix (5.3.15, 5.4.5).

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