Re: CVE Request -- PHP 5 - 5.2.11

[yersinia <yersinia.spiros () gmail com>]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Nico Golde
<oss-security+ml () ngolde de<oss-security%2Bml () ngolde de>
> wrote:

> Hi,
> * Joe Orton <jorton () redhat com> [2009-09-18 16:11]:
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:23:43PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > > * Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov () redhat com> [2009-09-18 13:52]:
> > > >   PHP has released another upstream 5.2 release, fixing
> > > > four security issues:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
> > > > http://www.php.net/downloads.php
> > > >
> > > > Could you please allocate CVE identifiers?
> > >
> > > What is the security impact of:
> > > Fixed bug #44683 (popen crashes when an invalid mode is passed).
> (Pierre)
> > > ?
> >
> > This would appear to be:
> >
> > http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=287779
> >
> > which is Windows-specific.
>
> I was more wondering why this is a security issue rather
> than a bug.

http://securityvulns.com/Vdocument145.html

> Cheers
> Nico
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