CVE-2007-1711

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-03-27 · updated 2026-06-16

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).

Affected products

PHP: 4.4.5, 4.4.6

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0154.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0155.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0163.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24910
http://secunia.com/advisories/24924
http://secunia.com/advisories/24941
http://secunia.com/advisories/24945
http://secunia.com/advisories/25025
http://secunia.com/advisories/25062
http://secunia.com/advisories/25445

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