Bug 202676 - CVE-2006-4020 PHP buffer overflow flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-4020 PHP buffer overflow flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: php
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joe Orton
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-15 20:17 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 5.1.6-3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-11-03 12:22:12 UTC
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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.
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