gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200804-07.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200804-07">
  <title>PECL APC: Buffer Overflow</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer overflow vulnerability in PECL APC might allow for the remote
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pecl-apc</product>
  <announced>April 09, 2008</announced>
  <revised>April 09, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>214576</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-php5/pecl-apc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.16-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.16-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    PECL Alternative PHP Cache (PECL APC) is a free, open, and robust
    framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Daniel Papasian discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the
    apc_search_paths() function in the file apc.c when processing long
    filenames.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
    code in PHP applications that pass user-controlled input to the
    include() function.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PECL APC users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-php5/pecl-apc-3.0.16-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1488">CVE-2008-1488</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:46:37 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:49:16 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:31:29 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>