CVE-2008-5624

Description

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2

http://secunia.com/advisories/35003

http://secunia.com/advisories/35650

http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47318

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:045

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2