CVE-2010-4697 Use after free in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

Use-after-free in PHP Zend engine allows attackers to cause denial of service or other impacts via object reference methods.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
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Attackable
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Victim action needed
Not stated
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2010-4697?

CVE-2010-4697 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Php Php, published on 18 Jan 2011.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4697?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4697?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2010-4697 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-3x9v-m7wh-wv6x.

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