CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-2728
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-05-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. Note: The PHP team argue that this is not a valid security issue.
Affected configurations
• php php
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.04
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-457 Use of Uninitialized Variable weakness
References
- http://blog.php-security.org/archives/80-Watching-the-PHP-CVS.html Broken Link
- http://osvdb.org/36086 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25306 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26102 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26895 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-485-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1839 Third Party Advisory
- http://blog.php-security.org/archives/80-Watching-the-PHP-CVS.html Broken Link
- http://osvdb.org/36086 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25306 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26102 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26895 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html Broken Link
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-485-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1839 Third Party Advisory