CVE-2007-3806

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The glob function in PHP 5.2.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid value of the flags parameter, probably related to memory corruption or an invalid read on win32 platforms, and possibly related to lack of initialization for a glob structure.

Affected products

PHP: 5.2.3

References

http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/dir.c?r1=1.166&r2=1.167
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/dir.c?view=log
http://osvdb.org/36085
http://secunia.com/advisories/26085
http://secunia.com/advisories/26642
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
http://secunia.com/advisories/30158
http://secunia.com/advisories/30288
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1572
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1578
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4181
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml

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