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suPHP Race Condition Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29615
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Release Date:
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2008-04-02
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Last Update:
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2008-04-11
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | suPHP 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1614 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in suPHP, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to race condition errors while processing symlinks to files or directories. These can be exploited to execute malicious scripts with escalated privileges by exploiting the race conditions via symlink attacks.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.6.3.
Solution:
Update to version 0.6.3.
http://www.suphp.org/Download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2008-04-11: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.suphp.general/348
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