CVE-2011-0420

medium

Published 2011-02-19 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

The grapheme_extract function in the Internationalization extension (Intl) for ICU for PHP 5.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid size argument, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35354 dos php verified

Maksymilian Arciemowicz · 2011-02-17

PHP 5.3.5 - 'grapheme_extract()' Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-16182 dos linux verified

Maksymilian Arciemowicz · 2011-02-17

PHP 5.3.5 - 'grapheme_extract()' Null Pointer Dereference

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
php	php	`5.3.5`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.