CVE-2008-1734 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can cause PHP denial of service and read script contents via glob interpretation conflicts in PHP Toolkit on Gentoo Linux.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-1734?
CVE-2008-1734 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Apr 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Interpretation conflict in PHP Toolkit before 1.0.1 on Gentoo Linux might allow local users to cause a denial of service (PHP outage) and read contents of PHP scripts by creating a file with a one-letter lowercase alphabetic name, which triggers interpretation of a certain unquoted [a-z] argument as a matching shell glob for this name, rather than interpretation as the literal [a-z] regular-expression string, and consequently blocks the launch of the PHP interpreter within the Apache HTTP Server.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-1734?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gentoo Php Toolkit.
How do I fix CVE-2008-1734?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1734 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-1734 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-1734 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c947-8fx5-pm4w.