CVE-2006-4020 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-4020 at MITRE

Description

scanf.c in PHP 5.1.4 and earlier, and 4.4.3 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a sscanf PHP function call that performs argument swapping, which increments an index past the end of an array and triggers a buffer over-read.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 197223 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:052, published Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:019, published Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:020, published Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2006:022, published Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:08:36 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:17:20 2023