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php: interruption vulnerabilities in trim and substr_replace (MOPS-2010-047, MOPS-2010-048)

Published Jun 7, 2010

Description

The (1) trim, (2) ltrim, (3) rtrim, and (4) substr_replace functions in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) by causing a userspace interruption of an internal function, related to the call time pass by reference feature.

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Red Hat statement

Red Hat does not consider interruption issues allowing safe_mode / open_basedir restriction bypass to be security sensitive. For more details see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 7, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jun 7, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date May 31, 2010