National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2386
Original release date:07/07/2012
Last revised:09/22/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the phar_parse_tarfile function in tar.c in the phar extension in PHP before 5.3.14 and 5.4.x before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted tar file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823594
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61065
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120522 Re: CVE request: PHP Phar - arbitrary code execution
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SU-2012:0840
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-2
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=158d8a6b088662ce9d31e0c777c6ebe90efdc854
External Source: MISC
Name: http://0x1byte.blogspot.com/2011/04/php-phar-extension-heap-overflow.html