oss-security - Re: Re: CVE Request

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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:54:03 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re:  Re: CVE Request - roundcubemail

* Raphael Geissert:

> I became aware of some sort of code execution vulnerability one day
> before that ticket was reported. After reviewing the file I
> determined that it isn't a vulnerability in roundcube, but in PHP
> itself; but I'm open to be proved wrong.

I think this is a documented feature of preg_replace with the "e"
flag, comparable to what happens when you use string concatenation to
create SQL statements.

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