vulnerability alert CVE-2012-6113

PHP: memory reading via openssl_encrypt

Synthesis of the vulnerability

When an attacker can control data sent to the PHP openssl_encrypt() function, and when he can read the result of this function, then he can obtain fragments of the application memory.
Impacted products: PHP.
Severity: 1/4.
Creation date: 21/01/2013.
Identifiers: 1099793, 61413, BID-57462, CVE-2012-6113, VIGILANCE-VUL-12341.

Description of the vulnerability

The PHP openssl_encrypt() function encrypts data. For example:
  $encrypted = openssl_encrypt($data, ...);

However, if data size is zero, this function does not initialize the integer storing the data size. The openssl_encrypt() function then returns a memory fragment, of a random size (this size is the value previously stored at the address of this integer).

When an attacker can control data sent to the PHP openssl_encrypt() function, and when he can read the result of this function, he can therefore obtain fragments of the application memory.
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