Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1949-1 php-net-ping -- programming error

Date Reported:

12 Dec 2009

Affected Packages:

php-net-ping

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-4024.

More information:

It was discovered that php-net-ping, a PHP PEAR module to execute ping independently of the Operating System, performs insufficient input sanitising, which might be used to inject arguments (no CVE yet) or execute arbitrary commands (CVE-2009-4024) on a system that uses php-net-ping.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php-net-ping packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+etch1.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+etch1_all.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+lenny1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+lenny1.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.2-1+lenny1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.