A vulnerability has been identified in PHP, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions. This flaw is due to an error in the cURL extension that does not properly handle null byte characters passed to the "curl_init()" function, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass safe mode restrictions and gain unauthorizd access to arbitrary scripts.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz
ChangeLog
2006-05-30 : Initial release
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