CVE-2008-5624 Information

Description

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 http://osvdb.org/50483 http://osvdb.org/52207 http://secunia.com/advisories/35003 http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:045 http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php5.2.7 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498985/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501376/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32688 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47318