CVE-2011-1657

Public Date:
2011-05-07
Bugzilla:
718253: CVE-2011-1657 php: ZipArchive::addGlob() missing glob flags filtering

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The (1) ZipArchive::addGlob and (2) ZipArchive::addPattern functions in ext/zip/php_zip.c in PHP 5.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain flags arguments, as demonstrated by (a) GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC and (b) GLOB_APPEND.

Find out more about CVE-2011-1657 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

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

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php53 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 php Not affected

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