PHP Vulnerability Announced

Posted by krow on Monday July 22, 2002 @08:20AM from the who-would-have-thunk-it dept.

corz writes "Just when you thought you were finished upgrading the webserver, 'The PHP Group has learned of a serious security vulnerability in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. An intruder may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the web server. This vulnerability may be exploited to compromise the web server and, under certain conditions, to gain privileged access.' Here's the bugtraq announcement." The hole is in the parsing of HTTP POST headers and can allow arbitrary code to be run on vulnerable machines. PHP thoughtfully decided to release a new version, 4.2.2, today with the fix. You can find a copy of it here (mirror).

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Re:www.php.net/downloads.php by Henry+V+.009 · 2002-07-22 08:40 · Score: 3, Informative

I went to upgrade php and got that as well. It's the same for the mirrors. This doesn't bode well.
Re:*sigh* by dzym · 2002-07-23 07:28 · Score: 3, Informative

But then again, the good folks at Apache didn't think the chunked encoding vulnerability could be used to execute arbitrary code on 32-bit platforms.
Gobbles proved them wrong.