Vulnerabilities > CVE-2005-0596 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in PHP 4.0

047910
CVSS 2.1 - LOW
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
php
nessus

Summary

PHP 4 (PHP4) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using the readfile function on a file whose size is a multiple of the page size.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Php
1

Nessus

NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_07F3FE15A9DE11D9A7880001020EED82.NASL
descriptionA SUSE Security advisory reports : A bug in the readfile() function of php4 could be used to to crash the httpd running the php4 code when accessing files with a multiple of the architectures page size leading to a denial of service.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id18832
published2005-07-13
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/18832
titleFreeBSD : php -- readfile() DoS vulnerability (07f3fe15-a9de-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(18832);
  script_version("1.19");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:36");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0596");
  script_bugtraq_id(12665);

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : php -- readfile() DoS vulnerability (07f3fe15-a9de-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"A SUSE Security advisory reports :

A bug in the readfile() function of php4 could be used to to crash the
httpd running the php4 code when accessing files with a multiple of
the architectures page size leading to a denial of service."
  );
  # http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27037
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27037"
  );
  # http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_06_sr.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.suse.com/support/security/advisories/2005_06_sr/"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/07f3fe15-a9de-11d9-a788-0001020eed82.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?78d0a82f"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mod_php");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mod_php4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mod_php4-twig");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:php4");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:php4-cgi");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:php4-cli");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:php4-dtc");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:php4-horde");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:php4-nms");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2004/01/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/04/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"mod_php4-twig<4.3.5_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"php4-cgi<4.3.5_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"php4-cli<4.3.5_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"php4-dtc<4.3.5_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"php4-horde<4.3.5_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"php4-nms<4.3.5_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"php4<4.3.5_7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"mod_php<4.3.5_7,1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"mod_php4<4.3.5_7,1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_note(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_note(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");