Resource management error in PHP - CVE-2010-4697
Published: January 18, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU45430
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-4697
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: PHP Group
Affected software:
PHP
PHP
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Zend engine in PHP before 5.2.15 and 5.3.x before 5.3.4 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact via vectors related to use of __set, __get, __isset, and __unset methods on objects accessed by a reference.
How to mitigate CVE-2010-4697
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://bugs.php.net/52879
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45952
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65310
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12528