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Message-ID: <555B7EB6.7060302@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 11:19:34 -0700
From: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@...il.com>
To: Andrea Palazzo <andrea.palazzo@...el.it>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, security@....net
Subject: Re: CVE Request + Advisory: PHP str_repeat() sign mismatch based
 memory corruption

Hi!

> http://phpcrossref.com/xref/jpegmeta/EXIF.php.html,
> https://code.google.com/p/zimbra-api-php/,
> http://phpcrossref.com/xref/jpegmeta/XML.php.html) it is really likely
> that it would end up processed by one of these functions (string
> concatenation, for example).
> 
> $makernote <http://phpcrossref.com/xref/jpegmeta/_variables/makernote.html> .= str_repeat <http://phpcrossref.com/xref/jpegmeta/_functions/str_repeat.html>("\x00",( $tiff_data <http://phpcrossref.com/xref/jpegmeta/_variables/tiff_data.html>[ 'Makernote_Tag' ][ 'Offset' ] - 8 ) );

OK, I guess with parsing external formats like EXIF it can happen, so
while I'm still not sure about remote exploitation, remote triggering is
a possibility, you've convinced me here.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@...il.com

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