php update (was Re: Rumours about Apache 1.3.22 exploits)

From: Christopher McCrory (chrismccat_private)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 09:43:01 PST

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    Hello...
    
    There is an anouncement and patches available at php's web site:
    
    http://www.php.net/
    http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012002.html
    
    The bug report is here:
    http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15736
    
    it recomends turning off file uploads as a work around
    
    
    
    H D Moore wrote:
    > On Saturday 23 February 2002 06:12 pm, Pedro Hugo wrote:
    > 
    >>There are rumours about an exploit for apache 1.3.22 at least...
    >>Don't have yet details on it...
    >>Anyone else heard about it ?
    >>
    > 
    > Disclaimer:  I have no exploits, dont ask for any. If you really want 
    > details, do a source diff on php 4.0.6 and 4.1.x for rfc1687.c.
    > 
    > There is a bug in the php_split_mime function in PHP 3.x and 4.x. There is a 
    > working exploit floating around which provides a remote bindshell for PHP 
    > versions 4.0.1 to 4.0.6 with a handful of default offsets for different 
    > platforms. Since the PHP developers commited another change to the affected 
    > source file (rfc1687.c) about two days ago, speculation is that there is yet 
    > another remote exploit. There are tools floating around whch demonstrate 
    > numerous SEGV's in the PHP module, not only in the mime decoder...
    > 
    > Exploits have been floating around for at least 2 months, you would think 
    > someone would step up and shed some light on this to the general public by 
    > now.  The sad thing is that certain folks in the "security industry" have 
    > known about this for almost as long as there have been exploits, yet nothing 
    > was ever made public.
    > 
    
    
    
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