CVE-2009-4024

Publication date 29 November 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Argument 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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php-net-ping	9.10 karmic	Fixed 2.4.2-1+etch1build0.9.10.1
	9.04 jaunty	Fixed 2.4.2-1+etch1build0.9.04.1
	8.10 intrepid	Fixed 2.4.2-1+etch1build0.8.10.1
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 2.4.2-1+etch1build0.8.04.1
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release

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References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/
http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4024