PHP < 5.2.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Aug 2008)
🗓️ 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 226 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP 5.x < 5.2.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities | 2 May 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| PHP 4.x < 4.4.9 Multiple Vulnerabilities | 11 Aug 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Mac OS X 10.5 < 10.5.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities | 6 Aug 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| Mac OS X 10.5 < 10.5.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities | 6 Aug 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| CentOS 3 / 5 : php (CESA-2008:0544) | 17 Jul 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| CentOS 4 : php (CESA-2008:0545) | 6 Jan 201000:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-1499-1 : pcre3 - buffer overflow | 25 Feb 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-1572-1 : php5 - several vulnerabilities | 13 May 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian DSA-1578-1 : php4 - several vulnerabilities | 19 May 200800:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 8 : glib2-2.14.6-1.fc8 (2008-1533) | 14 Feb 200800:00 | – | nessus |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:php:php";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800110");
script_version("2025-09-24T05:39:03+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-24 05:39:03 +0000 (Wed, 24 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-10-07 16:11:33 +0200 (Tue, 07 Oct 2008)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2024-02-02 13:52:57 +0000 (Fri, 02 Feb 2024)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-4850", "CVE-2008-0599", "CVE-2008-0674", "CVE-2008-2050",
"CVE-2008-2051");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("PHP < 5.2.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Aug 2008)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_php_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("php/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"PHP is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The following flaws exist:
- CVE-2007-4850: Error in curl/interface.c in the cURL library(libcurl), which could be exploited
by attackers to bypass safe_mode security restrictions.
- CVE-2008-0599: Error during path translation in cgi_main.c.
- CVE-2008-0674: Buffer overflow error in PCRE when handling a character class containing a very
large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255(UTF-8 mode).
- CVE-2008-2050: Stack-based buffer overflow in FastCGI SAPI (fastcgi.c).
- CVE-2008-2051: Unspecified error within the processing of incomplete multibyte characters in
escapeshellcmd() API function");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could result in remote arbitrary code
execution, security restrictions bypass, access to restricted files, denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"PHP version prior to 5.2.6.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 5.2.6 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://pcre.org/changelog.txt");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27413");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27786");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29009");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0178");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less_equal(version: version, test_version: "5.2.5")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.2.6", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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