CVE-2009-3557

Public Date:
2009-09-30
Bugzilla:
539529: php: safe_mode / open_basedir security fixes in 5.3.1

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The tempnam function in ext/standard/file.c in PHP before 5.2.12 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions, and create files in group-writable or world-writable directories, via the dir and prefix arguments.

Find out more about CVE-2009-3557 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

We do not consider safe_mode / open_basedir restriction bypass issues being security sensitive. For more details see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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