Use-after-free in PHP - CVE-2010-2225

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Use-after-free in PHP - CVE-2010-2225

Published: June 24, 2010 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33703
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-2225
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing serialized data, related to the PHP unserialize function. A remote attackers can execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


Affected software

PHP
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
php (Alpine package)
php5-cgi (Ubuntu package)
php5-cli (Ubuntu package)
libapache2-mod-php5 (Ubuntu package)
dev-lang/php
php

How to mitigate CVE-2010-2225

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

php (Alpine package) - update to 5.3.2-r8
php5-cgi (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.19, 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12, 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.6, 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.5, 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5
php5-cli (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.19, 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12, 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.6, 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.5, 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5
libapache2-mod-php5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.19, 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12, 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.6, 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.5, 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5
dev-lang/php - update to 5.3.8
php - update to 5.2.14

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