oss-security - CVE Request -- phpLDAPadmin -- Local file inclusion flaw in "common.php" via "Accept-Language" HTTP header leading to DoS

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Message-ID: <4EA94975.30401@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:07:17 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Dmitry Butskoy <buc@...sz.so-cdu.ru>
Subject: CVE Request -- phpLDAPadmin -- Local file inclusion flaw in "common.php"
 via "Accept-Language" HTTP header leading to DoS

Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,

   a local file inclusion flaw was found in the way the phpLDAPadmin,
a web based LDAP client for managing LDAP servers, processed certain
values of the "Accept-Language" HTTP header. A remote attacker could
use this flaw to cause a denial of service (generate recursive 
inclusions leading to resource exhaustion) via specially-crafted request.

Note: A different issue than CVE-2011-4075 (due the different
       attack vector and different source code file in question).

References:
[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50328/info

Relevant exploit:
[2] http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/50328.java

According to Dmitry, this issue should be fixed in upstream v0.9.8.5
version too.

Could you allocate a CVE id for this?

Thank you && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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