[php-maint] Bug#499992: CVE-2008-2829: unsafe imap library usage leads to buffer overflows

[sean finney]

Package: php5
Version: 5.2.0-8+etch11
Severity: important

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via http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2829:

php_imap.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.


note that this issue is already fixed in lenny and sid, but a fix may
not be possible without an update to the imap library itself, which does
not provide the updated/safe api in the version available in etch.


	sean


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php5 depends on:
ii  libapache2-mod-php5           5.2.6-3    server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-cgi                      5.2.6-3    server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-common                   5.2.6-3    Common files for packages built fr

php5 recommends no packages.

php5 suggests no packages.

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