CVE-2014-4721 Information

Description

The phpinfo implementation in ext/standard/info.c in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14 does not ensure use of the string data type for the PHP_AUTH_PW PHP_AUTH_TYPE PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_SELF variables which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by using the integer data type with crafted values related to a \type confusion\ vulnerability as demonstrated by reading a private SSL key in an Apache HTTP Server web-hosting environment with mod_ssl and a PHP 5.3.x mod_php.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00035.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00046.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html http://secunia.com/advisories/54553 http://secunia.com/advisories/59794 http://secunia.com/advisories/59831 http://twitter.com/mikispag/statuses/485713462258302976 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2974 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21683486 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67498 https://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/14-07-04-phpinfo-infoleak.html