| Name | CVE-2007-2728 |
| Description | The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. Note: The PHP team argue that this is not a valid security issue. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| php5 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.6.40+dfsg-0+deb8u21 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| php4 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| php5 | source | etch | (not affected) | | | |
| php5 | source | (unstable) | 5.2.3-1 | low | | |
Notes
[etch] - php5 <not-affected> (Version from 5.2.0 correctly uses rand())
- php4 <not-affected> (no soap functions in php4)