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php: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):php CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3799 CVE-2007-3998 CVE-2007-4659 CVE-2007-4658 CVE-2007-4670 CVE-2007-4661
Created:October 23, 2007 Updated:May 19, 2008
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

Various integer overflow flaws were found in the PHP gd extension. A script that could be forced to resize images from an untrusted source could possibly allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the apache user. (CVE-2007-3996)

A previous security update introduced a bug into PHP session cookie handling. This could allow an attacker to stop a victim from viewing a vulnerable web site if the victim has first visited a malicious web page under the control of the attacker, and that page can set a cookie for the vulnerable web site. (CVE-2007-4670)

A flaw was found in the PHP money_format function. If a remote attacker was able to pass arbitrary data to the money_format function this could possibly result in an information leak or denial of service. Note that is is unusual for a PHP script to pass user-supplied data to the money_format function. (CVE-2007-4658)

A flaw was found in the PHP wordwrap function. If a remote attacker was able to pass arbitrary data to the wordwrap function this could possibly result in a denial of service. (CVE-2007-3998)

A bug was found in PHP session cookie handling. This could allow an attacker to create a cross-site cookie insertion attack if a victim follows an untrusted carefully-crafted URL. (CVE-2007-3799)

A flaw was found in handling of dynamic changes to global variables. A script which used certain functions which change global variables could be forced to enable the register_globals configuration option, possibly resulting in global variable injection. (CVE-2007-4659)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the PHP chunk_split function. If a remote attacker was able to pass arbitrary data to the third argument of chunk_split they could possibly execute arbitrary code as the apache user. Note that it is unusual for a PHP script to use the chunk_split function with a user-supplied third argument. (CVE-2007-4661)

Alerts:
Debian DSA-1578-1 2008-05-17
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:015 2007-08-03
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:004 2008-01-29
Debian DSA-1444-2 2008-01-23
Debian DSA-1444-1 2008-01-03
Ubuntu USN-549-2 2007-12-03
Ubuntu USN-549-1 2007-11-29
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0891-01 2007-10-25
rPath rPSA-2007-0221-1 2007-10-24
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0917-01 2007-10-23

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