Bug 201767

Summary:	CVE-2006-4020 PHP buffer overflow flaw
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	php	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-08-08 19:28:48 UTC

PHP buffer overflow flaw

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP executes an argument
swap via the sscanf function.  The below URLs contain more
information.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38322
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442438/30/0/threaded
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143126

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-08-09 12:35:51 UTC

The upstream patch is here:
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/scanf.c?r1=1.31.2.2&r2=1.31.2.2.2.1

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2006-10-24 11:54:18 UTC

Fixed in FEDORA-2006-1024:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-October/msg00028.html