Title: PHP Versions Prior to 5.3.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Severity: HIGH
Description:
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
The following security issues have been identified:
1. An unspecified input-validation vulnerability affects 'exif' processing.
2. An unspecified issue is related to 'popen' and invalid modes.
3. An unspecified issue is related to 'safe_mode_include_dir'.
4. A denial-of-service issue is related to uploading a large number of files. Specifically, when sending a post request to a PHP script that contains the content type of 'multipart/form-data' and includes a list of files in the request, PHP will create a temporary file for each request submitted. If an attacker sends an excessive number of requests, the webserver will stop responding.
5. A denial-of-service vulnerability affects the 'php_com_locate_typeinfo()' function in the 'ext/com_dotnet/com_typeinfo.c' source file.
6. Additional, unspecified issues with possible security implications are also present.
These issues affect PHP 5.3 prior to 5.3.1; some issues also affect PHP 5.2 prior to 5.2.12.
UPDATE (December 7, 2009): Information regarding the vulnerability affecting 'posix_mkfifo()' (CVE-2009-3558) has been removed from this BID and is now documented in BID 36554 (PHP 'posix_mkfifo()' 'open_basedir' Restriction Bypass Vulnerability).
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 5.0
- Debian Linux 5.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 5.0 amd64
- Debian Linux 5.0 arm
- Debian Linux 5.0 armel
- Debian Linux 5.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 5.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 5.0 mips
- Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 5.0 powerpc
- Debian Linux 5.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 5.0 sparc
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 4.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Enterprise Server 5
- MandrakeSoft Enterprise Server 5 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2008.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2009.1
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2009.1 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2010.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2010.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Multi Network Firewall 2.0.0
- PHP PHP 5.2.11
- PHP PHP 5.3.0
- Pardus Linux 2008
- Pardus Linux 2009
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS lpia
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.10 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.10 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.10 lpia
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.10 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.10 sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.04 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.04 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.04 lpia
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.04 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.04 sparc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.10 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.10 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.10 lpia
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.10 powerpc
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 9.10 sparc
References:
- Bogdan Calin: PHP multipart/form-data denial of service
- CVE: CVE-2009-3558
- Debian: [SECURITY] [DSA-1940-1] New php5 packages fix several issues
- PHP: PHP 5.2.12 ChangeLog
- PHP: PHP 5.2.12 Release Announcement
- PHP: PHP 5.3.1 ChangeLog
- PHP: PHP 5.3.1 Release Announcement
- PHP: PHP Homepage
- PHP: [svn] Revision 289996
- SecurityReason: PHP 5.3.0 5.2.11 posix_mkfifo() open_basedir bypass
- Ubuntu: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-862-1
- oCERT: #2009-017 PHP multiple issues
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