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TITLE:
suPHP Race Condition Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29615

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29615/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
suPHP 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/18145/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in suPHP, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to race condition errors while
processing symlinks to files or directories. These can be exploited
to execute malicious scripts with escalated privileges by exploiting
the race conditions via symlink attacks.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.6.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.6.3.
http://www.suphp.org/Download.html

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.suphp.general/348

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