CVE-2008-5624 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5624
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47318 SREASONRES http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA35003 Secunia Advisory: SA35650 OSVDB 50483 52207 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:045 HP http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789 CONFIRM http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/501376/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498985/100/0/threaded BID 32688

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