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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2050 Detail

Current Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI (fastcgi.c) in PHP before 5.2.6 has unknown impact and attack vectors.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/22/2008)

This issue does not affect the version of PHP shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. We do not consider this issue to be a security flaw for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 since no trust boundary is crossed. More information can be found here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-2050

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/sapi/cgi/fastcgi.c?r1=1.44&r2=1.45&diff_format=u CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30048 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30083 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30158 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30345 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/31200 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/31326 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1572 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:022 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:023 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/02/2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492535/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29009 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.488951 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1412 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42133 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2503 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2050
NVD Published Date:
05/05/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.