full-disclosure - RE: Windows PHP 4.x "0-day" buffer overflow

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Date: Sun Jan  8 18:56:41 2006
From: mercenary at hushmail.com (mercenary@...hmail.com)
Subject: RE: Windows PHP 4.x "0-day" buffer overflow

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This has nothing to do with the named pipe itself. This is a flaw
in the way PHP parses a server name containing a named pipe
declaration.

If you read it again, you will find this is a classical stack based
buffer overflow before the named pipe is even created. It's a
parsing error.

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:01:59 -0800 LE Backup <lucretias@...w.ca>
wrote:
>I believe using named pipes on windows has ALWAYS been known for
>MANY YEARS
>that it was exploitable.
>
>Products we were working on in 2003 were quite aware of this
>potential, and
>simply don't use named pipes.
>
>What this has to do with PHP I'm not certain either as this seems
>to
>highlight MySQL.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James Friesen, CIO
>
>Lucretia Enterprises
>"Our World Is Here..."
>Info at lucretia dot ca
>http://lucretia.ca
>
>
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