7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-3379

Published: 03/11/2011 Updated: 03/07/2012
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The is_a function in PHP 5.3.7 and 5.3.8 triggers a call to the __autoload function, which makes it easier for remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted URL and leveraging potentially unsafe behavior in certain PEAR packages and custom autoloaders.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #646675 CVE-2011-3379: is_a() will trigger autoload in PHP 538 Package: src:php5; Maintainer for src:php5 is Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Ingo Juergensmann <ij@2011bluespiceorg> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:54:02 UTC Severity: serious Tags: pat ...
PHP before 537 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 ...