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CVE-2014-3981 is a symlink-following vulnerability in the PHP configure-script support logic derived from acinclude.m4 in PHP 5.5.13 and earlier. During a glibc-related configuration check, the script uses a predictable temporary file without safely preventing symbolic-link substitution. A local attacker can pre-create a symbolic link at that temporary-file location so that a subsequent configure execution overwrites an attacker-selected file accessible to the user running the script.
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A PHP vulnerability that permits local modification of data in affected HP-UX Apache Web Server Suite deployments.
A local file-access vulnerability in PHP included in the HP-UX Apache Web Server Suite bulletin.
A low-severity local arbitrary-file-overwrite vulnerability in PHP's acinclude.m4/configure script. A local user can exploit a symlink attack involving /tmp/phpglibccheck; PHP 5.5.13 and earlier are affected.
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