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HIGH

security flaw

Published Jan 22, 2001

Description

PHP 3 and 4 do not properly cleanse user-injected format strings, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by triggering error messages that are improperly written to the error logs.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue was fixed in the following products: - Red Hat Linux 5.2 - RHSA-2000:088 (2000-10-23) - Red Hat Linux 6.0 - RHSA-2000:088 (2000-10-23) - Red Hat Linux 6.1 - RHSA-2000:088 (2000-10-23) - Red Hat Linux 6.2 - RHSA-2000:088 (2000-10-23) - Red Hat Linux 7.0 - RHSA-2000:088 (2000-10-23) - Red Hat Secure Web Server 3.2 - RHSA-2000:095 (2000-10-26)

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (13)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 22, 2001
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Nov 24, 2000
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Oct 12, 2000