Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Zend Platform, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands.

The first issue is due to an error in the ZendSession Manager daemon when handling malformed sessions, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system.

The second flaw is due to an error in the ZendSession Manager daemon when handling session files, which could be exploited by attackers to read or create arbitrary session files.

The second vulnerability is due to an error in the "mod_cluster" module when handling malformed sessions, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system.

Affected Products

Zend Platform version 2.2.1 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to Zend Platform version 2.2.1a :
http://www.zend.com/downloads

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3388
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_052006.128.html

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Stefan Esser

ChangeLog

2006-08-28 : Initial release

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