SB2006103001 - Gentoo update for PHP
Published: October 30, 2006 Updated: June 28, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2006103001
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2006-4812)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Integer overflow in PHP 5 up to 5.1.6 and 4 before 4.3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an argument to the unserialize PHP function with a large value for the number of array elements, which triggers the overflow in the Zend Engine ecalloc function (Zend/zend_alloc.c).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.