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- Author: voroskoi
- Vulnerable: 5.2.4-1
- Unaffected: 5.2.5-1sayshell1
Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported in PHP, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited to bypass certain security restrictions.
- Various errors exist in the “htmlentities” and “htmlspecialchars” functions where partial multibyte sequences are not accepted.
- Various boundary errors exist in the “fnmatch()”, “setlocale()”, and “glob()” functions and can be exploited to cause buffer overflows.
- An error in the processing of the “mail.force_extra_parameters” directive within an “.htaccess” file can be exploited to bypass the “safe_mode” directive.
- An error in the handling of variables can be exploited to overwrite values set in httpd.conf via the “ini_set()” function.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2576