Bug 476985 (CVE-2008-5624) - CVE-2008-5624 php: missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid)
Summary: CVE-2008-5624 php: missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 169857
Alias: CVE-2008-5624
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-18 14:44 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-02-26 21:29:17 UTC
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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 5 Josh Bressers 2009-02-26 21:29:17 UTC

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


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