Re: Re: [Full-disclosure] PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite

2007-03-14 Thread retrog
[/quote] I can see why you weren't able to find anything. However, there have been a number of disclosures that are probably related - but these were grep-and-gripe affairs in third party applications, where the researcher didn't necessarily investigate *why* certain attacks worked. [/quote] let

Re: [Full-disclosure] PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite

2007-03-13 Thread Steven M. Christey
Stefano Di Paola said: 1. I search on google for import_request_variables advisories (nothing found) 2. I search on php.net in changeLog for fixes (nothing found). I can see why you weren't able to find anything. However, there have been a number of disclosures that are probably related - but

Re: [Full-disclosure] PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite

2007-03-11 Thread Stefan Esser
Hello, PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite Date 20060307 I believe all dates in the advisory contain the wrong year... III. ANALYSIS import_request_variables() is not new to vulnerabilities: consider this change log entry for 24 Nov 2005, PHP 5.1.

Re: [Full-disclosure] PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite

2007-03-10 Thread Stefano Di Paola
Hi Stefan, first of all let me say i come in peace :) Il giorno sab, 10/03/2007 alle 15.17 +0100, Stefan Esser ha scritto: Hello, PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite Date #-1;#-1; 20060307 I believe all dates in the advisory contain the wrong year...

Re: [Full-disclosure] PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite

2007-03-10 Thread ascii
Stefan Esser wrote: Taking into account that the vulnerability you describe is fixed in Hardened-PHP for years and that there is also a protection against this in the Suhosin Extension you can be sure that this NOT a new vulnerability (and that you are not the first one who found it...) not

Re: [Full-disclosure] PHP import_request_variables() arbitrary variable overwrite

2007-03-10 Thread Stefan Esser
Hello Stefano, first of all. I am not angry at you, although my mail might have sounded so, but at the people that deserve it. The fault of the PHP Security Response Team is not yours. They are the ones that give credit to the wrong persons. Luckily after 2.5 years they fixed that issue (or