{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2008-12-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "php: missing initialization of BG(page_uid) and BG(page_gid)",
    "id" : "476985",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476985"
  },
  "details" : [ "PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable." ],
  "statement" : "We do not consider these to be security issues. For more details see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and https://www.php.net/security-note.php",
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5624\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5624" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-5624",
  "csaw" : false
}