CVE-2014-4049

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-06-11

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP parsed DNS TXT records. A malicious DNS server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the PHP interpreter if a PHP application used the dns_get_record() function to perform a DNS query.

See more information about CVE-2014-4049 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.1	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (php53)	ELSA-2014-1012	2014-08-06
Oracle Linux version 6 (php)	ELSA-2014-1012	2014-08-06
Oracle Linux version 7 (php)	ELSA-2014-1013	2014-08-06

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