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PHP Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3294 - Vulnerability Database
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PHP Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3294

Medium
Reference: CVE-2009-3294
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3294
Title: PHP Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Vulnerability
Overview:

The popen API function in TSRM/tsrm_win32.c in PHP before 5.2.11 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 when running on certain Windows operating systems allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) quotequot or (2) quoterquot string in the second argument (aka mode) possibly related to the _fdopen function in the Microsoft C runtime library. NOTE: this might not cross privilege boundaries except in rare cases in which the mode argument is accessible to an attacker outside of an application that uses the popen function.