Matt Graham wrote:
From: "M. Sokolewicz" <tularis@xxxxxxx>
Matt Graham wrote:
PHP had potential vulnerability CVE-2008-2829
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42862 for a reasonable discussion and
an (unofficial) patch.
I'm just curious as to what other PHP users are doing about the problem,
since Redhat says "meh" even though the company doing the security
scan says "OMG PANIC!!1!"
it's doesn't look that dangerous to me, I'd personally rather side with
Redhat in their "meh" than with the security-scan-company's "OMG
PANIC!!1!".
This is what I thought. However, they would rather believe the security
scan company for some reason.
If you want the patch to appear in the next version of PHP
(5.2.3), make some noise about it on the internals list.
? I thought they were up to 5.2.6....
ugh, sorry, meant 5.3, I type too fast for myself to read what I just
typed ;)
it hasn't been applied until one of the devs gets so annoyed with you
spamming him with it that he'll either apply it (thus getting it into
the next release) or tell you what's wrong with it so you'll finally
leave him alone. A simple solution :)
Yep. I prefer to avoid annoying and spamming developers, though :-]
P.S. note: the potential vulnerability only occurs if you actually use
the imap functions. If you don't: don't worry, you're still "safe".
Aye. However, I mangled the source and compiled a version of PHP 5.2.6
such that the IMAP stuff wasn't even compiled, then installed that
mangled version on a test box. The security scan company then scanned
that test box, and said, "Problem CVE-2008-2829 still exists." I do
wonder what they're doing when they're scanning....
As Shawn said, it's probably purely based on the PHP version, nothing more.
- Tul
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