CVE-2009-4024

NameCVE-2009-4024
DescriptionArgument injection vulnerability in the ping function in Ping.php in the Net_Ping package before 2.4.5 for PEAR allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: this has also been reported as a shell metacharacter problem.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1949-1

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
php-net-pingsourceetch2.4.2-1+etch1DSA-1949-1
php-net-pingsourcelenny2.4.2-1+lenny1DSA-1949-1
php-net-pingsource(unstable)2.4.2-1.1medium

Notes

fix applied by upstream is incomplete, reported to oss-sec

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