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CVE-2008-5624 (GCVE-0-2008-5624)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-12-17 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:56
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501376/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32688 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/35003 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://osvdb.org/50483 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONRES
http://osvdb.org/52207 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498985/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2008-12-05 00:00
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      "product_status:recommended": "90",
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2008-5624",
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}



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