Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-27 Thread Martin Jansen
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:42, Marcus Börger wrote: > At 19:17 26.03.2003, Martin Jansen wrote: > >On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:29, Antony Dovgal wrote: > > > I just don't see any reasons to include experimental extensions, > > > that will cause such "security advisories", into the core distribution. > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-27 Thread Marcus Börger
At 19:17 26.03.2003, Martin Jansen wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:29, Antony Dovgal wrote: > I just don't see any reasons to include experimental extensions, > that will cause such "security advisories", into the core distribution. > Someone can explain this to me, maybe I'm wrong? The plan is to

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 26 Mar 2003 19:17:39 +0100 Martin Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The plan is to move a lot of extension to PECL, once the > infrastructure is rock-solid. Please don't ask, when this will happen > and which extensions will be moved :-). Yep, I know about this plan. Ok, I just stated my IMHO

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Sascha Schumann
> I thought Siberia is much further, then PECL =) > By the way, in Russian "PECL" sounds almost like a word, that > means "hell".. In German, it sounds like "pimple". I've always been saying that it was a bad choice. - Sascha -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 26 Mar 2003 13:10:25 -0500 Sterling Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its a segfault, it will be fixed. Sockets is a standard, and atm very > widely used and important extension - its not going to > siberia^H^H^H^Hpecl. I thought Siberia is much further, then PECL =) By the way, in Russian "

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Sterling Hughes
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 04:39, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:30:11 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) > Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't see how it is in any way exploitable. > That's what I wanted to say indeed. > > IMHO it will be much better to move this extensi

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Martin Jansen
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:29, Antony Dovgal wrote: > I just don't see any reasons to include experimental extensions, > that will cause such "security advisories", into the core distribution. > Someone can explain this to me, maybe I'm wrong? The plan is to move a lot of extension to PECL, once th

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Martin Jansen
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 10:39, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:30:11 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) > Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't see how it is in any way exploitable. > That's what I wanted to say indeed. > > IMHO it will be much better to move this extensi

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 26 Mar 2003 14:38:36 +0100 Martin Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you are proposing to move sockets to PECL, because the extension > will not attract that much interest there and thus the possible > security issues will not be revealed so fast? > I agree with that up to a certain point,

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 26 Mar 2003 14:38:36 +0100 Martin Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you are proposing to move sockets to PECL, because the extension > will not attract that much interest there and thus the possible > security issues will not be revealed so fast? > I agree with that up to a certain point,

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:30:11 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see how it is in any way exploitable. That's what I wanted to say indeed. IMHO it will be much better to move this extension to PECL and to avoid such articles, having bad influence on P

Re: [PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
It isn't an overflow, in that particular case, but there are other parts of the sockets extension where negative values can make their way to an emalloc() call, and I suppose you could call that an integer overflow. I don't see how it is in any way exploitable. -Rasmus On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Anton

[PHP-DEV] socket_iovec_alloc segfault && security advisory

2003-03-26 Thread Antony Dovgal
Hello, all Mordred Labs advisory - Integer overflow in PHP socket_iovec_alloc() function. http://www.securitylab.ru/?ID=36819 IMHO it's not integer overflow, but using of nonexisting second parameter, just try to call: and you'll get segfault. Take a look at this part of code: ext/sockets/so