National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1453
Original release date:03/14/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer underflow in the PHP_FILTER_TRIM_DEFAULT macro in the filtering extension (ext/filter) in PHP 5.2.0 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by calling filter_var with certain modes such as FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, which causes filter to write a null byte in whitespace that precedes the buffer.
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:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/16/2007)
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Not vulnerable. The filter extension was not shipped in versions of PHP
provided for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, Stronghold 4.0, or
Red Hat Application Stack 1.
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External Source: BID
Name: 22922
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_1.php
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-19-2007.html
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2007:032
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1283
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25062
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25056