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CVE-2007-1401

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the crack extension (CrackLib), as bundled with PHP 4.4.6 and other versions before 5.0.0, might allow local users to gain privileges via a long argument to the crack_opendict function.

Affected products

• PHP: 4.4.6

References

• http://retrogod.altervista.org/php_446_crack_opendict_local_bof.html
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2405
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462226/100/0/threaded
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3431
• http://retrogod.altervista.org/php_446_crack_opendict_local_bof.html
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2405
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462226/100/0/threaded
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3431

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