Information disclosure in PHP - CVE-2010-2484
Published: August 23, 2016 / Updated: June 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110287
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-2484
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The strrchr function in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.14 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) or trigger memory corruption by causing a userspace interruption of an internal function or handler.
Affected software
PHP
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
How to mitigate CVE-2010-2484
Install update from vendor's website.
PHP - update to 5.2.14
dev-lang/php - update to 5.3.8
dev-lang/php - update to 5.3.8
External References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Aug/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4312
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_14.php
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619324