Buffer overflow in PHP - CVE-2011-1464
Published: March 20, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45183
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1464
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Buffer overflow in the strval function in PHP before 5.3.6, when the precision configuration option has a large value, might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a small numerical value in the argument.
Affected software
PHP
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
How to mitigate CVE-2011-1464
Install update from vendor's website.
dev-lang/php - update to 5.3.8
External References
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54055
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:052
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:053
- http://www.php.net/archive/2011.php
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.php.net/releases/5_3_6.php
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0744