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PostPosted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 4:08 pm    Post subject: [gentoo-security] GLSA: mod_php php Reply with quote

Daniel Ahlberg wrote:
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-8
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PACKAGE : mod_php php
SUMMARY�: buffer overflow
DATE �� : 2003-01-13 15:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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- From advisory:

"If you use the wordwrap() function on user-supplied input, a
specially-crafted input can overflow the allocated buffer and
overwrite the heap. Exploit looks very difficult, but still
theoretically possible."

Read the full advisory at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104102689503192&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
dev-php/php-4.2.3 and/or dev-php/mod_php-4.2.3 or earlier update
their systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge php

and/or

emerge mod_php

finish with:

emerge clean

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