National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1991

Overview

The substr_compare function in string.c in PHP 5.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory access violation) via an out-of-bounds offset argument.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20269

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20269

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2006:031

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_31_php.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.infigo.hr/en/in_focus/advisories/INFIGO-2006-04-02

Hyperlink:http://www.infigo.hr/en/in_focus/advisories/INFIGO-2006-04-02

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1500

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/1500

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015979

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015979

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200605-08

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-08.xml

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:091

Hyperlink:http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:091

External Source: XF

Name: php-substrcompare-length-dos(26003)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26003

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-320-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-320-1

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDKSA-2006:091

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:091

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21125

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21125

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20676

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20676

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20052

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20052