Text taken from MITRE: PHP 4.x up to 4.4.4 and PHP 5 up to 5.1.6 allows local users to bypass certain Apache HTTP Server httpd.conf options, such as safe_mode and open_basedir, via the ini_restore function, which resets the values to their php.ini (Master Value) defaults. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/445651/100/0/threaded This issue also likely affects RHEL2.1 and RHEL3
This issue should not present security issues; safe-mode/open_basedir bypasses not being considered as such. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169857 ***