Bug 206937

Summary: CVE-2006-4020 PHP buffer overread flaw
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Joe Orton <jorton>
Component: phpAssignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 2.1CC: security-response-team, tao
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=gentoo,reported=20060807,public=20060804
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0682 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 201766    
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Description Joe Orton 2006-09-18 10:39:26 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #201766 +++

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


This issue also affects RHEL3
This issue also affects RHEL2.1

-- 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 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-09-21 10:44:30 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0682.html