CVE-2011-1092

high
Published 2011-03-15 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

Integer overflow in ext/shmop/shmop.c in PHP before 5.3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read sensitive memory via a large third argument to the shmop_read function.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-16966 dos linux verified
Jose Carlos Norte ยท 2011-03-12

PHP 5.3.6 - 'shmop_read()' Integer Overflow Denial of Service

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.3.5"}
php phpphp1.0
php phpphp2.0
php phpphp2.0b10
php phpphp3.0
php phpphp3.0.1
php phpphp3.0.2
php phpphp3.0.3
php phpphp3.0.4
php phpphp3.0.5
php phpphp3.0.6
php phpphp3.0.7
php phpphp3.0.8
php phpphp3.0.9
php phpphp3.0.10
php phpphp3.0.11
php phpphp3.0.12
php phpphp3.0.13
php phpphp3.0.14
php phpphp3.0.15
php phpphp3.0.16
php phpphp3.0.17
php phpphp3.0.18
php phpphp4.0
php phpphp4.0.0
php phpphp4.0.1
php phpphp4.0.2
php phpphp4.0.3
php phpphp4.0.4
php phpphp4.0.5
php phpphp4.0.6
php phpphp4.0.7
php phpphp4.1.0
php phpphp4.1.1
php phpphp4.1.2
php phpphp4.2.0
php phpphp4.2.1
php phpphp4.2.2
php phpphp4.2.3
php phpphp4.3.0
php phpphp4.3.1
php phpphp4.3.2
php phpphp4.3.3
php phpphp4.3.4
php phpphp4.3.5
php phpphp4.3.6
php phpphp4.3.7
php phpphp4.3.8
php phpphp4.3.9
php phpphp4.3.10
php phpphp4.3.11
php phpphp4.4.0
php phpphp4.4.1
php phpphp4.4.2
php phpphp4.4.3
php phpphp4.4.4
php phpphp4.4.5
php phpphp4.4.6
php phpphp4.4.7
php phpphp4.4.8
php phpphp4.4.9
php phpphp5.0.0
php phpphp5.0.1
php phpphp5.0.2
php phpphp5.0.3
php phpphp5.0.4
php phpphp5.0.5
php phpphp5.1.0
php phpphp5.1.1
php phpphp5.1.2
php phpphp5.1.3
php phpphp5.1.4
php phpphp5.1.5
php phpphp5.1.6
php phpphp5.2.0
php phpphp5.2.1
php phpphp5.2.2
php phpphp5.2.3
php phpphp5.2.4
php phpphp5.2.5
php phpphp5.2.6
php phpphp5.2.7
php phpphp5.2.8
php phpphp5.2.9
php phpphp5.2.10
php phpphp5.2.11
php phpphp5.2.12
php phpphp5.2.13
php phpphp5.2.14
php phpphp5.2.15
php phpphp5.2.16
php phpphp5.2.17
php phpphp5.3.0
php phpphp5.3.1
php phpphp5.3.2
php phpphp5.3.3
php phpphp5.3.4

References

CWEs

CWE-189

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

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