CVE-2010-4697: Use After Free

Q: What is the severity of CVE-2010-4697?

CVE-2010-4697 is classified as a moderate severity vulnerability due to its potential for denial of service and memory corruption.

Q: How do I fix CVE-2010-4697?

To fix CVE-2010-4697, upgrade your PHP installation to version 5.2.15 or 5.3.4 or later.

Q: What software versions are affected by CVE-2010-4697?

CVE-2010-4697 affects PHP versions prior to 5.2.15 and 5.3.4, including various earlier versions such as 4.3.x and 5.1.x.

Q: What are the potential impacts of CVE-2010-4697?

The potential impacts of CVE-2010-4697 include denial of service due to heap memory corruption and possibly other unspecified effects.

Q: Is there a workaround for CVE-2010-4697?

There are no specific workarounds for CVE-2010-4697 other than upgrading to the fixed versions.

Published Jan 18, 2011

Updated

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.

Affected Software

103 affected components

PHP PHP=4.3.9

PHP PHP=4.4.9

PHP PHP=3.0

PHP PHP=5.2.9

PHP PHP=4.0-beta1

PHP PHP=3.0.5

PHP PHP=3.0.11

PHP PHP=5.1.5

PHP PHP=5.1.2

PHP PHP=4.0-beta4

PHP PHP=4.2.0

PHP PHP=5.1.1

PHP PHP=3.0.1

PHP PHP=3.0.2

PHP PHP=4.4.4

PHP PHP=5.0.0-beta1

PHP PHP=4.1.0

PHP PHP=5.1.6

PHP PHP=4.3.4

PHP PHP=4.0.4

PHP PHP=4.3.0

PHP PHP=4.0.5

PHP PHP=5.2.7

PHP PHP=5.2.2

PHP PHP=3.0.8

PHP PHP=5.0.5

PHP PHP=4.3.6

PHP PHP=3.0.13

PHP PHP=5.0.1

PHP PHP=5.1.4

PHP PHP=5.2.5

PHP PHP=4.3.7

PHP PHP=5.0.4

PHP PHP=4.2.2

PHP PHP=4.4.2

PHP PHP=5.2.12

PHP PHP=3.0.7

PHP PHP=4.3.2

PHP PHP=4.3.11

PHP PHP=4.0.0

PHP PHP=3.0.6

PHP PHP=3.0.17

PHP PHP=4.0.7

PHP PHP=4.0.2

PHP PHP=4.3.3

PHP PHP=2.0

PHP PHP<=5.2.14

PHP PHP=4.1.1

PHP PHP=3.0.15

PHP PHP=3.0.16

PHP PHP=5.2.11

PHP PHP=5.2.6

PHP PHP=4.4.3

PHP PHP=5.0.0-rc2

PHP PHP=5.2.3

PHP PHP=5.0.3

PHP PHP=3.0.10

PHP PHP=3.0.4

PHP PHP=4.2.3

PHP PHP=5.1.0

PHP PHP=4.4.5

PHP PHP=5.2.13

PHP PHP=5.0.0-rc3

PHP PHP=4.0-beta2

PHP PHP=2.0b10

PHP PHP=4.4.8

PHP PHP=4.0.6

PHP PHP=5.2.0

PHP PHP=5.2.4

PHP PHP=4.1.2

PHP PHP=5.0.0-beta3

PHP PHP=4.3.1

PHP PHP=5.1.3

PHP PHP=3.0.18

PHP PHP=4.0-beta_4_patch1

PHP PHP=4.4.0

PHP PHP=5.2.10

PHP PHP=4.3.10

PHP PHP=4.2.1

PHP PHP=5.0.0-rc1

PHP PHP=4.0.1

PHP PHP=1.0

PHP PHP=5.0.2

PHP PHP=4.4.6

PHP PHP=3.0.12

PHP PHP=4.4.1

PHP PHP=4.0-beta3

PHP PHP=5.2.1

PHP PHP=4.0.3

PHP PHP=3.0.14

PHP PHP=3.0.9

PHP PHP=3.0.3

PHP PHP=5.0.0-beta4

PHP PHP=5.0.0

PHP PHP=4.3.8

PHP PHP=4.3.5

PHP PHP=5.0.0-beta2

PHP PHP=5.2.8

PHP PHP=4.4.7

PHP PHP=5.3.1

PHP PHP=5.3.0

PHP PHP=5.3.3

PHP PHP=5.3.2

Remediation

Patch Available

http://bugs.php.net/52879

Event History

Jan 18, 2011

CVE Published

via MITRE·07:00 PM

Data Sourced

via MITRE·07:00 PM

Description

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2010-4697?

CVE-2010-4697 is classified as a moderate severity vulnerability due to its potential for denial of service and memory corruption.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4697?