CVE-2006-7243 Information

Description

PHP before 5.3.4 accepts the \0 character in a pathname which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by placing a safe file extension after this character as demonstrated by .php\0.jpg at the end of the argument to the file_exists function.

Reference

http://bugs.php.net/39863 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158616.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158915.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/159031.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=132871655717248&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/18/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/18/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/10 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/11 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/9 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1307.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1615.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0311.html http://secunia.com/advisories/55078 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581 http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=305412 http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=305507 http://www.madirish.net/?article=436 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:254 http://www.php.net/archive/2010.phpid2010-12-10-1 http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php http://www.php.net/releases/5_3_4.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44951 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A12569