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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2007-1711 EUVD-2007-1705GHSA-g7q5-7w4c-7v63

Double free vulnerability in the unserializer in PHP 4.4.5 and 4.4.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by overwr…

Published Mar 27, 2007 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Double free vulnerability in the unserializer in PHP 4.4.5 and 4.4.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by overwriting variables pointing to (1) the GLOBALS array or (2) the session data in _SESSION. NOTE: this issue was introduced when attempting to patch CVE-2007-1701 (MOPB-31-2007).

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 4.0 php4 6:4.4.4-8+etch2 DSA-1282-1
Debian 4.0 php5 5.2.0-8+etch3 DSA-1283-1
Debian 3.1 php4 4:4.3.10-20 DSA-1282-1

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 4 php +13 4.3.9-3.22.4 RHSA-2007:0155
RHEL 3 php +6 4.3.2-40.ent RHSA-2007:0155
RHEL 2 php +7 4.1.2-2.17 RHSA-2007:0154
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Rhel Stronghold 4 stronghold-php +8 4.1.2-15 RHSA-2007:0163

Public exploits

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Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Advisories 5

References