Information Exposure Affecting php5 package, versions <5.6.0~rc1+dfsg-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.15% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-PHP5-394578
  • published6 Jul 2014
  • disclosed6 Jul 2014

Introduced: 6 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-4721  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 php5 to version 5.6.0~rc1+dfsg-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php5 package and not the php5 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The phpinfo implementation in ext/standard/info.c in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14 does not ensure use of the string data type for the PHP_AUTH_PW, PHP_AUTH_TYPE, PHP_AUTH_USER, and PHP_SELF variables, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by using the integer data type with crafted values, related to a "type confusion" vulnerability, as demonstrated by reading a private SSL key in an Apache HTTP Server web-hosting environment with mod_ssl and a PHP 5.3.x mod_php.

CVSS Scores

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