CVE-2008-5844 - PHP 5.2.7 contains an incorrect change to the FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW functionality, and unintentionally d

CVE-2008-5844

Summary

PHP 5.2.7 contains an incorrect change to the FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW functionality, and unintentionally disables magic_quotes_gpc regardless of the actual magic_quotes_gpc setting, which might make it easier for context-dependent attackers to conduct SQL injection attacks and unspecified other attacks.

References

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	7.5 (as of 14-05-2009 - 05:32)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-16

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
PARTIAL	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

refmap via4

bid	32673
confirm	http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42718 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46759 http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.8 http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-07-1 http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-12-08-1
sectrack	1021393

statements via4

contributor	Tomas Hoger
lastmodified	2009-01-23
organization	Red Hat
statement	Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the php package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, and with Red Hat Application Stack v1 and v2. Only PHP version 5.2.7 was affected by this flaw.

Last major update

14-05-2009 - 05:32

Published

05-01-2009 - 20:30

Last modified

14-05-2009 - 05:32