National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3182
Original release date:08/25/2011
Last revised:02/04/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PHP before 5.3.7 does not properly check the return values of the malloc, calloc, and realloc library functions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or trigger a buffer overflow by leveraging the ability to provide an arbitrary value for a function argument, related to (1) ext/curl/interface.c, (2) ext/date/lib/parse_date.c, (3) ext/date/lib/parse_iso_intervals.c, (4) ext/date/lib/parse_tz.c, (5) ext/date/lib/timelib.c, (6) ext/pdo_odbc/pdo_odbc.c, (7) ext/reflection/php_reflection.c, (8) ext/soap/php_sdl.c, (9) ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/base64.c, (10) TSRM/tsrm_win32.c, and (11) the strtotime function.
Description
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html
'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: php-library-functions-dos(69430)
External Source: BID
Name: 49249
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110822 CVE assignment php NULL pointer dereference - CVE-2011-3182
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2011:165
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
External Source: SREASONRES
Name: 20110819 PHP 5.3.6 multiple null pointer dereference
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20110819 PHP 5.3.6 multiple null pointer dereference
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2012-02-01-1