oss-security - Re: Re: CVE Request

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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:07:59 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re:  Re: CVE Request - roundcubemail

* Florian Weimer:

> * 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.

Scratch that, I had an off-by-one error in matching search/replace
terms. 8-(

Therefore, I agree with Raphael that the issue has not been found yet.

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