CVE-2010-1866

CRITICAL

PHP 5.3.0-5.3.2 - Denial of Service via Negative Chunk Size in HTTP Chunked Encoding Decoder

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2010-1866. PoCs published by Stefan Esser.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages an integer overflow vulnerability in PHP's file handling functions to trigger a denial-of-service or potentially execute arbitrary code. The PoC writes a malformed chunk to a file and reads it back using a dechunk filter, causing the overflow.

Description

The dechunk filter in PHP 5.3 through 5.3.2, when decoding an HTTP chunked encoding stream, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly trigger memory corruption via a negative chunk size, which bypasses a signed comparison, related to an integer overflow in the chunk size decoder.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Stefan Esser · phpremotephp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33920

This exploit leverages an integer overflow vulnerability in PHP's file handling functions to trigger a denial-of-service or potentially execute arbitrary code. The PoC writes a malformed chunk to a file and reads it back using a dechunk filter, causing the overflow.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: PHP 5.3.0 through 5.3.2
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Ability to write and read files on the target system
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0156
EPSS Percentile 82.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (6)
opensuse/opensuse 11.1
opensuse/opensuse 11.2
opensuse/opensuse 11.3
php/php 5.3.0 - 5.3.2
suse/linux_enterprise 10.0 sp3
suse/linux_enterprise 11.0 (2 CPE variants)
Published May 07, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026