CVE-2006-3016

Vulnerability Description

Unspecified vulnerability in session.c in PHP before 5.1.3 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "certain characters in session names," including special characters that are frequently associated with CRLF injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities. NOTE: while the nature of the vulnerability is unspecified, it is likely that this is related to a violation of an expectation by PHP applications that the session name is alphanumeric, as implied in the PHP manual for session_name().

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References

• ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061001-01-P.asc
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0736.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19927PatchVendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21050PatchVendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22004Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22069Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22225Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22440Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22487Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23247Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016306
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-221.htm
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-222.htm
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:122
• http://www.osvdb.org/25253