First published: Wed Jun 14 2006(Updated: )
Unspecified vulnerability in session.c in PHP before 5.1.3 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "certain characters in session names," including special characters that are frequently associated with CRLF injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities. NOTE: while the nature of the vulnerability is unspecified, it is likely that this is related to a violation of an expectation by PHP applications that the session name is alphanumeric, as implied in the PHP manual for session_name().
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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PHP | <=5.1.2 |
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CVE-2006-3016 is classified as having high severity due to the potential for various injection attacks.
To fix CVE-2006-3016, upgrade PHP to version 5.1.3 or later.
The attack vectors for CVE-2006-3016 include session name manipulations that can lead to CRLF injection, SQL injection, and XSS vulnerabilities.
CVE-2006-3016 affects PHP versions prior to 5.1.3.
CVE-2006-3016 is related to vulnerabilities involving CRLF injection, SQL injection, XSS, and HTTP response splitting.