Re: CVE Request - php (PHP BZ#27421)

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
>
> >   this PHP issue looks to desire a new CVE id.
> >
> > References:
> > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27421
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479272
>
> What attack scenario exists for this issue?  One virtual-host user can
> effectively DoS other virtual hosts running on the same Apache
> instance?

Sorry for the delay on responding to this.

Yes, if one web user sets mbstring.func_overload = 7 in a .htaccess, it will
effectively disable any other multibyte enabled sites on the same webserver.

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    JB