National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4697
Original release date:01/18/2011
Last revised:07/19/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.php.net/52879
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: php-zendengine-code-execution(65310)
External Source: BID
Name: 45952
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12528
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12528
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)