Bug 476985 (CVE-2008-5624)

Summary: CVE-2008-5624 php: missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bressers, fedora, jorton, kreilly, rpm
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5624
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-12-18 14:44:33 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5624 to the following vulnerability:

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and
page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function,
which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode
restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted
to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log
variable.

References:
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498985/100/0/
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32688
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47318
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-12-18 14:52:55 UTC 
Upstream patch:
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/basic_functions.c?r1=1.941&r2=1.942
Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2009-02-26 21:29:17 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 169857 ***