| Summary: | dev-lang/php: Improper validation of strings in ip2long function (CVE-2006-4023) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | php-bugs |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=920517 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Have we seen anything to indicate this affects a version in the tree? It says 5.1.4 and earlier, but earliest we have in tree is 5.3.23. NVD says nothing in tree is affected. Closing INVALID. |
From ${URL} : Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2006-4023 to the following vulnerability: The ip2long function in PHP 5.1.4 and earlier may incorrectly validate an arbitrary string and return a valid network IP address, which allows remote attackers to obtain network information and facilitate other attacks, as demonstrated using SQL injection in the X-FORWARDED-FOR Header in index.php in MiniBB 2.0. NOTE: it could be argued that the ip2long behavior represents a risk for security-relevant issues in a way that is similar to strcpy's role in buffer overflows, in which case this would be a class of implementation bugs that would require separate CVE items for each PHP application that uses ip2long in a security-relevant manner. References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4023 [2] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/441529/100/100/threaded [3] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/441708/100/100/threaded [4] http://retrogod.altervista.org/php_ip2long.htm [5] http://securitytracker.com/id?1016609