National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1401
Original release date:03/10/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the crack extension (CrackLib), as bundled with PHP 4.4.6 and other versions before 5.0.0, might allow local users to gain privileges via a long argument to the crack_opendict function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/19/2007)
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Not vulnerable. PHP as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5 does not include Cracklib support.
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070308 PHP 4.4.6 crack_opendict() local buffer overflow poc exploit
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 3431
External Source: MISC
Name: http://retrogod.altervista.org/php_446_crack_opendict_local_bof.html
External Source: SREASON
Name: 2405