Bug 202676

Summary:	CVE-2006-4020 PHP buffer overflow flaw
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	php	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,source=gentoo,reported=20060807,public=20060804
Fixed In Version:	5.1.6-3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Mark J. Cox 2006-08-15 20:17:35 UTC

For FC6

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #201767 +++

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

-- Additional comment from bressers on 2006-08-09 08:35 EST --
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 1 Joe Orton 2006-11-03 12:22:12 UTC

Fixed for FC6 GA.