INFORMATION BULLETIN

S-278: suphp Vulnerability

[Debian Security Advisory DSA-1550-1]

April 25, 2008 12:00 GMT


PROBLEM:	It was discovered that suphp, an Apache module to run PHP scripts with owner permissions handles symlinks insecurely, which may lead to privilege escalation by local users.
PLATFORM:	Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)
DAMAGE:	Privilege escalation.
SOLUTION:	Upgrade to the appropriate version.

VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT:	The risk is LOW. May lead to privilege escalation by local users.

CVSS 2 BASE SCORE: TEMPORAL SCORE: VECTOR:	3.2 2.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C)

LINKS:
CIAC BULLETIN:	http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-278.shtml
ORIGINAL BULLETIN:	http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1550
CVE:	CVE-2008-1614

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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1550-1 suphp -- programming error

Date Reported:

17 Apr 2008

Affected Packages:

suphp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 475431.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1614.

More information:

It was discovered that suphp, an Apache module to run PHP scripts with owner permissions handles symlinks insecurely, which may lead to privilege escalation by local users.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.2-1+etch0.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your suphp packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (stable)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp_0.6.2.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/suphp-common_0.6.2-1+etch0_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/suphp/libapache2-mod-suphp_0.6.2-1+etch0_s390.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.


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