[php-maint] Bug#800564: Bug#800564: php5: trivial hash complexity DoS attack

Ondřej Surý ondrej at sury.org
Fri Oct 9 08:44:09 UTC 2015


Brian,

if you have a moment, you can try recompile PHP with this patch and
retest with your test suite:

https://github.com/php/php-src/compare/master...nikic:integerHash

Cheers,
Ondrej

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, at 00:32, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, at 00:20, brian m. carlson wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 09:55:43PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > > Hi Brian,
> > > 
> > > did you already reported this to php security or should I do that?
> > 
> > You should probably do that.
> 
> I already did.
> 
> > I didn't contact PHP Security or the
> > Debian Security Team because I expect that due to similar
> > vulnerabilities in other languages, any attacker already knows about
> > this and can exploit it with minimal effort.  Secrecy doesn't therefore
> > benefit anyone, so I just filed a bug.
> 
> Yeah, I agree. Just they are the guys who will have to fix it, so it
> would have been faster to start with them.
> 
> Cheers,
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