@(#)Mordred Labs advisory - PHP for Win32: buffer overflow in openlog() function

From: sir.mordredat_private
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 07:53:54 PST

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//@(#) Mordred Security Labs advisory

Release date: March 27, 2003
Name: PHP for Windows - buffer overflow in openlog() function
Versions affected: all versions for Windows platforms
Risk: average
Author: Sir Mordred (mordred@s-mail.com)

I. Description:

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is
especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Please visit http://www.php.net for more information about PHP.

II. Details:

There exists a classic stack overflow in the openlog() function and the
following short script will illustrate this vulnerability:

$ cat t1.php
<?php
    openlog(str_repeat("X", 1500), LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
?>

III. Platforms tested

Windows 200 with IIS 5.0 / PHP 4.3.1

III. Workaround

Not available at the time of writing.

IV. Vendor

PHP developers notified.


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