CVE-2010-2101

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The (1) strip_tags, (2) setcookie, (3) strtok, (4) wordwrap, (5) str_word_count, and (6) str_pad functions in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) by causing a userspace interruption of an internal function, related to the call time pass by reference feature.

Affected products

PHP: 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5 (+11)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
http://php-security.org/2010/05/26/mops-2010-041-php-strip_tags-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html
http://php-security.org/2010/05/26/mops-2010-042-php-setcookie-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html
http://php-security.org/2010/05/26/mops-2010-043-php-strtok-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html
http://php-security.org/2010/05/26/mops-2010-044-php-wordwrap-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html
http://php-security.org/2010/05/26/mops-2010-045-php-str_word_count-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html
http://php-security.org/2010/05/26/mops-2010-046-php-str_pad-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2

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