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TITLE:
PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24089

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24089/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Unknown, Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PHP 5.1.x
http://secunia.com/product/6796/
PHP 5.2.x
http://secunia.com/product/13446/

DESCRIPTION:
Several vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP. Some have unknown
impacts, while others can be exploited to disclose potentially
sensitive information or bypass certain security restrictions.

1) The "safe_mode" and "open_basedir" protection mechanisms can be
bypassed via the session extension.

2) Unspecified overflows can be exploited to cause a stack corruption
in the session extension.

3) Stack overflows exist in the "zip", "imap", and "sqlite"
extensions.

4) A boundary error within the stream filters can be exploited to
cause a buffer overflow.

5) An unspecified overflow exist in the "str_replace()" function.

6) An unspecified error in the wddx extension can be exploited to
disclose potentially sensitive information.

7) An format string error exists in the *print() functions on 64-bit
systems.

8) Boundary errors exist within the "mail()" and the
"ibase_add_user()", "ibase_delete_user()", and "ibase_modify_user()"
and can be exploited to cause buffer overflows.

9) An format string error exists in the odbc_result_all() function.

Other issues which may be security related have also been reported.

NOTE: Some issues can be triggered remotely under certain
circumstances.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.2.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_1.php

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