National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4657
Original release date:09/04/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple integer overflows in PHP 4 before 4.4.8, and PHP 5 before 5.2.4, allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) or cause a denial of service (thread crash) via a large len value to the (1) strspn or (2) strcspn function, which triggers an out-of-bounds read. NOTE: this affects different product versions than CVE-2007-3996.
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 (09/05/2007)
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The only effect of this bug is to cause the process to read from a random segment of memory, if a large "length" parameter is passed to the strspn/strcspn function, which is under the control of the script author. This bug has no security impact.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.4
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secweb.se/en/advisories/php-strcspn-information-leak-vulnerability/
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26642
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_4.php
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1702
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1693
External Source: XF
Name: php-strcspn-strspn-unspecified(39399)
External Source: XF
Name: php-strcspn-overflow(36388)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-549-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-549-2
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2007-0026
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/releases/4_4_8.php
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200710-02
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3023
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1578
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1444
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2008-045-03
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30288
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28936
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28318
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28249
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27864
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27377
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27102
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26838
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26822