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CVE-2008-5624

Publication date 17 December 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php4 9.10 karmic Not in release
9.04 jaunty Not in release
8.10 intrepid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
7.10 gutsy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life
php5 9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.5
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.5
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.13

Notes

mdeslaur

the second upstream patch is for apache 1.x sapi apache 1.x is still in Dapper, so we better include it