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CVE-2006-3016 Detail

Current Description

Unspecified vulnerability in session.c in PHP before 5.1.3 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "certain characters in session names," including special characters that are frequently associated with CRLF injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities. NOTE: while the nature of the vulnerability is unspecified, it is likely that this is related to a violation of an expectation by PHP applications that the session name is alphanumeric, as implied in the PHP manual for session_name().


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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink Resource
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0736.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0736.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19927 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19927 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21050 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21050 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22004 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22004 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22069 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22069 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22225 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22225 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22440 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22440 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22487 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22487 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23247 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23247 Vendor Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016306
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016306
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-221.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-221.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-222.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-222.htm
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:122
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:122
http://www.osvdb.org/25253
http://www.osvdb.org/25253
http://www.php.net/release_5_1_3.php
http://www.php.net/release_5_1_3.php
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0669.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0669.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0682.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0682.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447866/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447866/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17843 Exploit  Patch 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17843 Exploit  Patch 
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2006/TLSA-2006-38.txt
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2006/TLSA-2006-38.txt
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-320-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-320-1
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-683
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-683
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10597
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10597

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-3016
NVD Published Date:
06/14/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE