National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1014

Overview

Argument injection vulnerability in certain PHP 4.x and 5.x applications, when used with sendmail and when accepting remote input for the additional_parameters argument to the mb_send_mail function, allows context-dependent attackers to read and create arbitrary files by providing extra -C and -X arguments to sendmail. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a class of technology-specific vulnerability, instead of a particular instance; if so, then this should not be included in CVE.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

This vulnerability affects all versions of PHP from 4.0.x through 5.1.x }

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)

We do not consider these to be security issues: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060228 (PHP) mb_send_mail security bypass

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/426342/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18694

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18694

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0772

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0772

External Source: BID

Name: 16878

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16878

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 23534

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/23534

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2006:024

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/05-05-2006.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19979

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19979