CVE-2012-2335

Publication date 11 May 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

php-wrapper.fcgi does not properly handle command-line arguments, which allows remote attackers to bypass a protection mechanism in PHP 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 and execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the PHP sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c component and a query string beginning with a +- sequence.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2
	11.10 oneiric	Fixed 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.8
	11.04 natty	Fixed 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.10
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.17
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.25

Notes

sbeattie

we gave a bit of advice in CVE-2012-2311 about this issue

mdeslaur

this is a further mitigation

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=000e84aa88ce16deabbf61e7086fc8db63ca88aa

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)