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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:57:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: php5

----- "Steffen Joeris" <steffen.joeris@...lelinux.de> wrote:
> 
> I don't think this has a CVE id yet.
> 
> Quote from the debian bugreport:
> "When an invalid key is used when calling dba_replace on a dba inifile
> 
> resource it leads to file truncation."
> 
> References:
> Debian Bugreport:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507101

I may be missing something here, but this looks like an issue where a bad script
really needs to cause this. Wouldn't it be just as easy to for the script author to
delete the file in question via a PHP script?

-- 
    JB

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