National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-1889
Original release date:04/06/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer signedness error in the _zend_mm_alloc_int function in the Zend Memory Manager in PHP 5.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large emalloc request, related to an incorrect signed long cast, as demonstrated via the HTTP SOAP client in PHP, and via a call to msg_receive with the largest positive integer value of maxsize.
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 user account 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. 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.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-43-2007.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-44-2007.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2007:032
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1283
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25062
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25056