openSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_php5 (apache2-mod_php5-310)

This update fixes a buffer overflow in phpimap.c that uses an old IMAP API. This bug can be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely via long IMAP requests. CVE-2008-2829 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : apache2-mod_php5 (apache2-mod_php5-5787)

This update fixes a buffer overflow in phpimap.c that uses an old IMAP API. This bug can be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely via long IMAP requests. CVE-2008-2829 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

CVE-2008-2829

phpimap.c in PHP 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 4.x, and other versions, uses obsolete API calls that allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long IMAP request, which triggers an "rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow" error message, related...