vulnerability bulletin 12183

PHP: buffer overflow via PDO

Synthesis of the vulnerability

An attacker who owns a database used by a PHP application which uses PDO, can send malicious error codes and error messages in order to corrupt the memory.
Impacted products: MES, Mandriva Linux, PHP.
Severity: 1/4.
Creation date: 27/11/2012.
Identifiers: 63235, MDVA-2012:068, VIGILANCE-VUL-12183.

Description of the vulnerability

The PDO (PHP Data Objects) extension can be used to prepare SQL queries, in order to optimize their processing time.

The routine pdo_odbc_error defined in the source file ext/pdo_odbc/odbc_driver.c uses two local buffers, used to store C strings. However, the buffer size does not take into account the terminating zero. Wen the database server sends an error code, this code is copied into the buffer discard_state, which leads to a one byte overflow.
A second buffer in the same routine, discard_buf, is used to store messages from the database server. The bug also applies to this buffer.

An attacker who owns a database used by a PHP application which uses PDO, can send malicious error codes and error messages in order to corrupt the memory.
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