phpDocumentor: Function call injection — GLSA 201111-04

phpDocumentor bundles Smarty which contains an input sanitation flaw, allowing attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions.

Affected packages

Package	dev-php/PEAR-PhpDocumentor on all architectures
Affected versions	< 1.4.3-r1
Unaffected versions	>= 1.4.3-r1

Background

The phpDocumentor package provides automatic documenting of PHP API directly from the source.

Description

phpDocumentor bundles Smarty with the modifier.regex_replace.php plug-in which does not properly sanitize input related to the ASCII NUL character in a search string.

Impact

A remote attacker could call arbitrary PHP functions via templates.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All phpDocumentor users should upgrade to the latest stable version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=dev-php/PEAR-PhpDocumentor-1.4.3-r1"

NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are available since February 12, 2011. It is likely that your system is already no longer affected by this issue.

References

CVE-2008-1066

Release date
November 11, 2011

Latest revision
November 11, 2011: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

213318