CVE-2012-2386

PHP <5.3.14, <5.4.4 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm

Description

Integer overflow in the phar_parse_tarfile function in tar.c in the phar extension in PHP before 5.3.14 and 5.4.x before 5.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted tar file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC

by Alexander Gavrun · phpdosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17201

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (9)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] http://0x1byte.blogspot.com/2011/04/php-phar-extension-heap-overflow.html

[Various Sources] http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=158d8a6b088662ce9d31e0c777c6ebe90efdc854

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00003.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/22/10

[Third Party Advisory] http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

[Vendor Advisory] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61065

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823594

Scores

EPSS 0.2835

EPSS Percentile 96.4%

Classification

CWE

CWE-189

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

php/php < 5.3.13

Timeline

Published Jul 07, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026