CVE-2006-4812

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-09-30
Bugzilla:
1618205: CVE-2006-4812 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Integer overflow in PHP 5 up to 5.1.6 and 4 before 4.3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an argument to the unserialize PHP function with a large value for the number of array elements, which triggers the overflow in the Zend Engine ecalloc function (Zend/zend_alloc.c).

Find out more about CVE-2006-4812 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

This issue did not affect the versions of php as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and 4.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (php) RHSA-2006:0708 2006-10-05
Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (v.4) (php) RHSA-2006:0688 2006-10-05

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