National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1468
Original release date:03/20/2011
Last revised:01/19/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple memory leaks in the OpenSSL extension in PHP before 5.3.6 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via (1) plaintext data to the openssl_encrypt function or (2) ciphertext data to the openssl_decrypt function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0744
External Source: BID
Name: 46977
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2011:1423
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2011:053
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2011-10-12-3
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54061
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54060
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)