CVE-2007-3007 Information

Description

PHP 5 before 5.2.3 does not enforce the open_basedir or safe_mode restriction in certain cases which allows context-dependent attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files by checking if the readfile function returns a string. NOTE: this issue might also involve the realpath function.

Reference

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41492 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-07/msg00006.html http://osvdb.org/36084 http://secunia.com/advisories/25456 http://secunia.com/advisories/26048 http://secunia.com/advisories/26231 http://secunia.com/advisories/27102 http://secunia.com/advisories/27110 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_3.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24259 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00397.html