Bug 733744 – CVE-2011-3268 PHP crash in crypt() from long salt

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Bug 733744 - (CVE-2011-3268) CVE-2011-3268 PHP crash in crypt() from long salt

Summary:	CVE-2011-3268 PHP crash in crypt() from long salt

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2011-3268

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	732517
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Reported:	2011-08-26 12:40 EDT by Josh Bressers
Modified:	2015-08-19 05:12 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2011-09-19 02:21:16 EDT
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Description Josh Bressers 2011-08-26 12:40:28 EDT

Buffer overflow in the crypt function in PHP before 5.3.7 allows
context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact via a long
salt argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2483.

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-19 01:56:01 EDT

Reference:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55439

Upstream patch:
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=315338

Patch for php-5.3 and php-5.4:
http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&amp;revision=315218

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-19 02:20:33 EDT

This vuln. will arise only either or both of the patches below have been applied:

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/standard/php_crypt_r.c?r1=313615&r2=314434

Here strcat is replaced by strncat

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/standard/php_crypt_r.c?r1=314434&r2=314438

Here strncat is replaced by strlcat

And finally the patch to correct this issue reverts strlcat to strcat.

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of php as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6. This issue did not affect the version of php53 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-09-19 02:21:16 EDT

This issue has been addressed in Fedora in the following updates:

Fedora-14: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/php/5.3.8/1.fc14
Fedora-15: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/php/5.3.8/1.fc15
Fedora-16: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/php/5.3.8/1.fc16
Fedora-16-testing: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/php/5.3.8/2.fc16
Fedora-Rawhide: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/php/5.3.8/2.fc17

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