National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1888
Original release date:04/06/2007
Last revised:11/13/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the sqlite_decode_binary function in src/encode.c in SQLite 2, as used by PHP 4.x through 5.x and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an empty value of the in parameter. NOTE: some PHP installations use a bundled version of sqlite without this vulnerability. The SQLite developer has argued that this issue could be due to a misuse of the sqlite_decode_binary() API.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/16/2007)
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Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of PHP as
shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, Stronghold 4.0, or
Red Hat Application Stack 1.
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-41-2007.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-455-1
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/rlog?f=sqlite/src/encode.c
External Source: VIM
Name: 20070422 vendor ack/clarification for CVE-2007-1888 (SQLite)
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25057
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 39177
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:091
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:091